Jimmy Johnson Quotes

Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.

As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.

I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent.

I think I feel fortunate to have been very well educated in terms of strength and training while I was at school at Stanford, and I think our strength coaches here on the Colts do a great job. A big part of being able to withstand hits is making sure that you've got a good base.

In football, you're hitting, so you might as well hit in practice.

When you're training every day, recovery is so important. I find that foam rolling helps me to make sure I don't get tight anywhere so that I keep mobilised and keep on top of things.

In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always massages and neuromuscular therapy worked in there as well on different days.

I went to Brazil to learn more about my body and my physique: what to do before training, during training, after training, even after the match.

I like to spend time on freekicks after training.

Actors normally go to the gym to achieve a certain kind of fitness for a role but when you start playing a sport, then you realise that being athletically fit is a very different kind of fitness.

Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!

When Manchester United play with the right spirit, nobody can beat us.

The first practice is two-and-a-half, three hours, and it's really physical. The second practice starts after lunch at 1 p.m. We work on specific stuff, like coming to the net. After that, I play sets. Then I'm in the gym for an hour-and-a-half doing legs, upper body, and cardio.

I'm always training to be quite honest, but there are those moments when you're a little more out of shape than you should be.

When you train the way I do, injuries are going to happen.

I was a bowler - left arm, smash it down as fast as I could. I did a lot of work with Damian D'Oliveira, and I probably had a chance of doing that for a living. But when I reached 16, I knew I couldn't carry on playing both football and cricket, and I was already in the Shrewsbury squad.

I take a lot of pride in the deep ball - I can throw it 75 yards in the air with ease, and I work at it.

The work I do with my physiotherapist has been instrumental in keeping me healthy, and it's a big reason why I'm able to continue to improve my game.

I take part in every training session, morning and afternoon, to make sure I'm fit enough.

I consider myself an athlete. I train like an athlete, I eat like an athlete, I recover and get sore just like any other athlete.

I wanted to play football, and my football coach told me if I wanted to be a football player, I should wrestle. That's why I started to wrestle.

Preparing for a stunt is like training for a sporting event.

To be honest, I'm now at one of the best teams in the world. To be part of this club and to have this opportunity is great. I'm very happy to be part of Manchester City's team, and I look forward to trying to do my best to help the team reach their goals.

No one's saying anything against healthy, fair hardness. That's a part of football. But referees must look more closely and make sure limits are not exceeded.

I've worked with Tom House and Adam Dedeaux, and both of those guys helped me out just pure mechanically.