‘…it takes physical toughness to create mental toughness…You and I understand that you’ve got to get up and go do a job every day. You are accountable to that job. If you don’t do it, you get fired. Well, young people haven’t faced that accountability, and so it’s our job as coaches to put that pressure on them so they understand their responsibilities…to understand what their assignments are so that we can win….’
Ernie Kent, Coach of UO Men’s Basketball Team

‘Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.’
Andre Agassi

‘I hated every minute of training, but I said, ”Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’
Muhammad Ali

‘Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.’
Walter Annenberg

‘So much of it is power to weight, so I’ve got to increase the power and lower the weight and, you know, you can lower the weight anywhere, but you can’t increase the power just anywhere. To increase the power, you have to have great training.’
Lance Armstrong

‘I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.’
Oksana Baiul

‘The world went by, and we didn’t get caught up in all the other things, because we didn’t have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals.’
Peggy Fleming

‘If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.’
Carl Lewis

‘If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.’
Herschel Walker