Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

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.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

I still work out on a daily basis.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

I’m not a health freak. I just work out every day.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.

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

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you’ve got to start saving. It’s not easy.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

‚Speed‘ and ‚Point Break‘ were a lot of running and jumping, and then ‚The Matrix Trilogy‘ had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Working out anchors my day.

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.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

I don’t exercise.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

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

I run New York City!

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.