People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels… try it!

I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

I still work out on a daily basis.

I train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That’s why they don’t have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they’re limiting movement.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I’m the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

I’m much healthier now.

I like the celebrations when I see my teammates do it, when I see fellow footballers on the international scene do it. I think it looks good, it suits most of them, if you know what to do, synchronise, then do it.

Computers double their performance every month.

A chorus is not easy.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

Stand-up is my baby.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‚Oh, it must be so hard.‘ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

I think I’ve really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

I can’t act!