Gym Quotations | Page 2

She's somebody that's a winner. She's constantly in the gym working on her game. She didn't play well against Louisville. She didn't play like a senior and didn't lead the best she could. She had a quick turnaround, and we had two great practices. I wasn't surprised we went into St. John's like we did.

She wants to get better. You walk into our gym before practice starts, you'll always find Jess at a basket working on her strengths and weaknesses. She starts every day with a routine that allows her to maintain her excellence.

She walked into our gym as a thin, kind of spindly girl, but worked in the weight room and became a dynamic player.

She was really close to all the kids. She was in the gym on Monday. She was a great kid and such a hard worker. She was always the first one in the gym. She was really smart and ran my scout team. She was just an incredible person. We're really going to miss her.

She's a tough competitor, fun to be around. She's just a gym rat.

Since we don't have a large enough gym area for a running program, the kids can follow along on the video and do the step aerobics and have a great time doing it.

She is an absolute gym rat, an unbelievable workaholic who has worked very hard to develop into a complete player. But she's not a stat monger and doesn't care about personal marks. She just wants the team to win.

My friend told me to call the coach because they needed a shooter. I ended up going down there and played some in open gym and got a spot on the team.

One of the things I've done is take our players into the gym where they hang up banners for every sport that wins a conference or section title. I tell the kids, 'Look around. Do you see anything for football?' There's nothing.

One thing we've been talking about all year is having no regrets. The seniors, this is our last chance, and we don't want to leave anything to chance and walk out of a gym knowing we could have done this or could have done that. We just keep fighting and keep getting better.

My day, normally speaking, is: I go the gym in the morning, I go and work for 10 or 12 hours, I have dinner, I go to sleep.

My dad was always super-active and got me in the gym at a young age. He wanted me to be health-conscious. 'Healthy body, healthy mind'; that's what he preached to me.

Maybe just an old high school gym where we left the door open.

Now we have the seniors. Last year, we brought all the seniors to the gym and had a few speakers talk about insurance and savings. This year we decided we would do a bigger program for them.

Now, we can get in the gym (and practice) before our next game on the 17th.

Right at the end there, if we score on about three or four of those possessions where we had decent shots, we could have gotten it to two or three (points). Our free throws weren't going in. Who knows. But when you can come into a ranked opponent's gym and be in that position and get it to six it's do-able. Our guys battled tonight.

I was surprised I didn't get tired. I worked pretty hard. Other than that, my timing was just a bit off. I have to get back into the gym and get that back. The next game is Tuesday, so I have to be ready to go when my name is called.

I wouldn't say that they're gym rats. But there's an awareness that these things are important.

I worked very hard to prove myself to them at camp. We drilled from one end of the gym to the other end, had to teach a routine to the class in front of Billy and pass a written and physical test. I had never been so sore.

I go to this gym full of stunt men. There aren't any TVs or treadmills there. This is a spit-and-sawdust kind of place. It has a lot of great training aids - trampolines and bags and every weapon ever invented to do harm to a human being. If you want to know how to throw a knife, it's great.

I go to the gym in a baseball cap, sweats and then run into a boy I like. It happens - so what?

I go to a gym and look at people on a treadmill, reading and walking at 3.8 mph, a strolling pace. That won't give them the results they want, especially if they've been doing it for a year. You're not engaging more of the muscle fibers, therefore, you are not changing the shape of your body.

If they meet that goal (of $10,000), they get a week of gym where they pick the activity. They're psyched. They've already picked what they want to do.

If we can send a spaceship into orbit, we can definitely guide a bike across the gym floor with a child on it,

I have had 1,000 people tell me that they used to go in a pick-up truck with their father and drive up on a mountain and listen to the games on the radio. We must have had a heck of a gym because I have had a million people say they saw Jerry West play.

I have days when I go to the gym and I can't push that 315, but then I look at my video of me benching 6 reps at 315, and I know I did do that. That wasn't a dream. That wasn't some weird fantasy. So I know that next time I'll go in and I'll do that.

I don't go to the gym every night planning on starting.

I don't have an iPod. I mean, I have a couple. Doesn't everyone? But I don't use it. I need to because I go to the gym now, and I'm tired of listening to morning radio. I want some music! I do have a video iPod, but I don't use it either.

I don't know when a game of this magnitude will be played in this gym again.

I'd be really surprised if they came out wide-eyed. The floor is still the same length. It is still a gym with two baskets and the ball is still the same shape. I'd be shocked if it affected our guys.

I came up with that one day during the summer. I was in the gym and this guy told me I couldn't touch one side of the backboard and come to the other side and dunk the ball, and I did it. It came from that, and I'm glad I got a chance to show it to the crowd.

I look up at the banners in our gym almost every day at practice and we've been open as a school since the 1970s and to see six, now seven, (district) banners and to know the girls have five of those, that's pretty special.

I have never been able to hold onto a really strict gym regime because I get bored.

I feel good, but at the same time it feels like I'm taking a chance if I'm going to the world championship. I talked to the medical guys here and it feels like the best thing to do for the future is to work in the gym and just take it easy - not put any stress on it.

I feel like we'll be OK if we play well. What we need is to get back in the gym and look over our game plan.

Gibson is one of those players that had a chance to go to one of the major conferences so he is a very good get for us. I think that he is a very solid individual. He is a good student and he is what I love in that he is a gym rat.

Franco is a great student of the game. He's a gym rat, he brings that to the team and he has great passing skills.

For some reason, this gym has been our nemesis.

From what I've seen of the kids here at the gym today, you can tell that they're very eager to learn, they're hungry for the game and they enjoy playing basketball,

For us to win a league championship, we knew we were gonna have to come in this gym and take it.

If (the Suns) used me as the scapegoat, that's fine. I don't point fingers. All I can do is get back in the gym and work hard. I'm just excited about being able to be the real Quentin Richardson and play the way I love to play.

He was always in the gym every waking moment (practicing), ... I had to make sure he ate regularly.

I always tell my people in the gym I'm getting old. The legs are the oldest thing on me. Once your knees go it's a struggle. I'm not able to move as much anymore. My whole game plan, my whole boxing career has been around moving and getting out of the way. I was not a person who catches a lot of punches. I slip more punches than getting hit. I had to get away from that and sit down.

He would not have wanted the gym named for him. He would have wanted it named for the kids.

He was the one that got me started in it. I would go up to the gym and shoot with him all the time. Then I'd go to every single one of my brother's games and he'd tell me what to do.

He has been due for a long time. He hadn't been hitting those jumpers for awhile, but he and his dad shot a lot in the old gym yesterday. Maybe he's working his way out of a shooting slump. It's all a matter of confidence.

He has earned a reputation as a great wrestler and now people seem to root for his opponent who is almost always the underdog. The gym was quite loud on Friday in Dayton when he failed to pin his opponents, even though both of those wins were very lopsided. I guess it just goes with the territory.

He looks real good in the gym and if does what he's supposed to do he should win. He's got the talent and the experience from last year.

He noticed the logo on the scoreboard in the boys' gym was in bad shape, so he painted it.

We talked about this last night: How can you not respect somebody whose body feels worse than everybody else's in the gym every single day, and he practices harder than everybody else every single day?

We talked about stepping up our play. We wanted to make sure we left this gym with a win.

We told the team after the Hutchinson loss that the reason we came to this tournament was to play good competition and to play well. Minus the Jefferson loss, we think we did. To be at the same gym the national tournament is at and get those first-day jitters out of the way, hopefully next time we'll be more prepared for this facility.

We've got to run him out of the gym some nights because we've gotta get the laundry done.

We've got to go back to the gym right away (today). We didn't practice our offensive sets enough. That was a coaching error. We worked more on our defense than our offense and it showed.

To fill up the gym. It's playoff time. I've got to get ready. I've just got to be around it, be around the gym and get that in me.

Having someone come to our gym and put up 30 points, I take it personal that I didn't do my job. But that's the one thing that's good about basketball - you do get another chance.

Having Karen in the gym has been such a huge plus for us because she is so good at the choreography and dance and the look of the routines on beam and floor. She is a also a Level 10 judge, so she is able to tell the girls what the judges look for and where certain deductions come.

Her mom told her to just take the night off and relax. Her dad said, 'OK, let's go.' So at 11 at night, they went to the gym to shoot so she could straighten out that shot. They're just a really competitive, hard-working family.

Going up to their gym and playing up there, I honestly expected a closer game. But with the first quarter that we had and the guys started off shooting the ball well, it was pretty incredible.

He's a kid who has some gym experience, who is working on becoming physically stronger, but he's made a lot of progress since his sophomore year.

He's a typical gym rat. After I send everybody home, he stays and shoots jumper after jumper and free throws. He stays 20 or 30 minutes after every practice and I have to tell him to go home. A couple of times, I gave the guys the day off, but he's the first guy to ask if he can come in and shoot.

He's going to try to get a higher score on the ACT or SAT and the FCAT. Right now, he has some pretty good options. He's going to study hard and get in the gym and work hard and get ready to join the team in January.

He's a talented quarterback, ... He's been around it and he's a coach's son, a gym rat or whatever you would call it for football. He's been a winner.

He's going to be a really, really good player because it's important to him. He's the first guy in the gym every single day. He's the last guy to leave almost every single day.

He's done so much for the town of Clinton. Nobody will be able to replace the guy. It's not the same going into the gym and knowing he's not walking through the door.

When they get each other going they are fun to watch. Dylan had a great game. He controlled the tempo of the game and he was making the calls out there all night. Lucas is just a gym rat. As he goes the team goes a lot of time. If he can have a good game we usually win.

He was in the gym shooting yesterday, and he can knock those down. He's got it in him.

I actually love competing away. The team is all together, there are no distractions, we stay in the hotel together, we eat together and go to the gym together. It's sort of like you are invading someone else's territory.

I also collaborated with the Heart Health Institute because I can provide the personal training and they can provide the gym membership.

He'll be one of the best athletes they've got there. He can dunk a ball any way you want to dunk it. Absolutely. He's got exceptional speed, exceptional jumping ability. He'll be a regular gym rat.

He jumps better, he's quicker, he's just an absolute gym rat. It sure is nice to have guys like that.

has been linked to the gym culture for much of his life.

I think it does. At that point, you can concentrate on your studies and your season and not have to worry about impressing whatever coach is in the gym watching you.

It can be intimidating, but once you're there, you realize no one is looking at you. You realize that not everyone is in great shape - they're coming to the gym to get fit, too.

I take a totally different approach to a lot of things now, school and my social life come before gym in a lot of ways, although I know that I still need to keep in shape, and stay healthy enough so that I can keep competing, and keep doing the shows, but it's not my whole life right now.

I think it's great for her. All the time she's put in and all the hard work all the way through. All that time in the gym has really paid off. The big thing, though, kids need to realize is that the honors come from being a successful team. If you don't have success as a team, you don't get recognized as an individual.

I think the board feels that a competition gym meets the needs of the district for a little extra money ... basically upgrading what we have in the plan.

It is great to finally be here, it's an awesome feeling. I didn't play as a freshman, sophomore or junior, so all the hard work I put in the gym during the summer and off season are well worthwhile. Any young player out there, don't give up. Keep working to get better and your reward will come.

Lacey has spent a lot of time in the gym and is very competitive. One thing that sets her apart from other young players is that she works so hard.

Lance has had an outstanding four-year career. He's a gym rat. He's working on his game all the time.

It is so good to be outside. Playing in the gym is so different and it's going to take a while. Today was nice in that we're outside and some of my players who'd been struggling hit well and got some confidence back.

I thought that he would have been a better boxer than a football player, because being a football player you have to have size, you have to have speed. It's a lot more difficult to get a scholarship for football than it is to go into the gym and go box.

I think we'll have four boxing for sure, maybe six. I'm just not real sure if they're ready yet. I like to see a kid in the gym for at least two months before his first match and then they'll go up against someone with relatively the same ring experience. There's only one way to get experience - get in the ring and get over the fear of being in the ring and in front of a crowd.

I think we know what we're doing. Coming into the gym every single day and getting a sweat, when you get to this time of the year, you get into really good shape. I don't know if the body needs to sweat every 24 hours or, if at least, it should.

I think we kind of made a decision as a staff and the players did, too, to stay away from the summer circuit, get back to the gym and get back to fundamentals. We only played about 27 summer games and did not get in any weekend tournaments.

I think we went back into the gym after that game and stay(ed) humble. We came in early, took some shots and made sure we were ready. We didn't want to feel like we did last year.

I think we've gained a lot in experience and by getting in the gym and working out the kinks. The important thing is that we need to start having fun and play as a team.

I think both of us have agreed that we probably wouldn't have made it as far in our careers without knowing each other. She'll help me in the gym whenever I need help and she knows how I work and I know how she works, so we've kind of gotten to that point in our careers together.

I think at our gym we played much better against their zone, especially in the last 10 minutes. We really controlled that game.

It happens. We missed some shots and they hit some shots. It's a tough loss, but it's not like an end-of-the-season loss. We just have to go back into the gym and get ready for New Jersey on Tuesday.

I think they do definitely feed off each other. If they go in the gym and play basketball, they both know they can jump up and throw down dunks. They're athletes and they're competitors. They know we're counting on them.

I think there's even a gym going in there. It's pretty incredible, we've had to put a lot of temporary building in there during this week, and I say it's the biggest show we've had here.

I saw his eyes light up when he walked into the gym here. He's going to be looking for great things and that just puts a little juice in his step, getting ready to play in this building again.

I see him as a gym rat. After practice, before practice, he's in there shooting, doing drills. He works his butt off.

Over the past three summers, I stay in the gym and just shoot. Usually about 200 to 300 shots a day.

Our five seniors are great leaders. I'm excited to see the confidence. Walking into the gym knowing they can win if they do well, that's good. That's been growing.

Our being new to the ACC and being in Carolina country we knew everybody in the gym was going to be against us. But we feed off that and came out and play harder.

Remember this is a guy that played four years of high school football and lived in the weight room. If a guy is really dedicated, he can find the gym time and still do both sports, in addition to doing a great job in the classroom. It is also important to remember he has wonderful parents who have supported him and held him accountable for his class work and character.

Playing at 9 a.m. is fine for us. We were able to practice at our gym this morning and felt good when we got here. Anyone who makes excuses about the time shouldn't be playing here.

Someone came up to me outside the gym after the game and said, you know, these girls will step up for you next year. Boy were they right. At the time, I heard what they said, but it was just an empty feeling and I didn't know if we'd ever have the opportunity again.