Gym Quotations | Page 4

You have to think of the kids. There's no gym and there's a triple grade down in the other classroom, and that's not good for the kids either.

We've played well. Very well at times. It all starts with the work ethic we bring to the gym every day whether it's a game or practice. We work hard and we make sacrifices.

Wes is a youngster who is a gym rat. He loves to work out and is always working on his game, always working on his body. I think he's pushed himself as close to the max as anybody I've coached in a long, long time.

We went back to the gym and really worked on defense, and got after it. And we played some of the best defense we played all year, maybe in a lot of years.

We went back into the gym and worked on our shot. It wasn't anything special.

We scored 14 points in the first half and that's usually a quarter for us. We usually get a lot of points in transition and they handled our press pretty well. This is a tough gym to shoot in, it's so wide and expansive. We're used to shooting in a box.

You get them-anywhere. It's-you can go right here to the corner gym and get it. It's that simple. It's that easy. But-obviously, I don't recommend using them or getting them without supervision, or a prescription, because they are illegal.

To me, it's primarily a 'walking city' thing. But when I go to my gym in Atlanta, the one thing I notice is that guys are showing more concern for the details, and they're starting to make statements with the bags they carry.

To be fair to him we haven't put any pressure on him to do that but he's tried to do it himself and he's not right so we're just going to give him time to get back in the gym a bit, get a bit of confidence back in his body and hopefully he will then be right for us.

We had our goal as going to state. But we were frustrated and we had a lot of pressure. We were much tighter than usual. That was the biggest gym we had ever played in and we got caught up.

Every time I left the gym so I guess you can say out of 24 hours in the day I was calling home about 20 hours. I was sleeping the other four hours.

Even though the weather is nice for this time of the year, it's still too cold for these pitchers to be throwing a lot of balls outside, so we stayed in the gym this week and worked hard so when we do get outside, we will be strong and ready for the season.

Bill Sharman was coach at that time and I didn't want to intrude, ... But Kermit had to learn to play facing the basket, which he'd never done. So, I began meeting him at the Loyola gym at 7:30 each morning and we'd work on his development.

Everybody knows about my left hook, so you've got to go to the gym and work on something more devastating.

Everybody in the locker room, the coaches, players and managers, and everybody in the gym when we practice - that's the only people that believed in us. We just pretty much stick with what we got.

Everybody in the gym knew where the ball was going and it didn't matter. Off-side, right-side, middle or back row, she found the open spot on the court.

Everybody in the gym knew Rondo was going to get it. My main concern was not letting him get to the lane. I thought it was going to be in our favor if he pulled up and took the jump shot. But he hit it.

As strange as it sounds, Roy wasn't motivated for those two fights. Roy is either self-motivated or he's not motivated at all. For those fights, he was bored. He was tired of pleasing other people. The second Tarver fight; he figured he'd beaten Tarver the first time when he was weak and had trouble making weight so now it would be easy. I didn't get what I should have gotten out of him in camp. And with Glen Johnson, it was the same thing. You can't make a fighter train if he doesn't want to. He might come to the gym but he won't work right while he's there.

As soon as we thought it would really be funny to have a fish for a gym coach, it popped in our heads, she's gotta have a really gruff voice because she's a gym coach. The first thing that came to mind was Brian Doyle Murray and we thought, well let's see if he'd be interested, and he said yes.

Coming into the series, a lot of people said we didn't have a chance, anyway. But you come into this gym and see the faces of these guys who are working hard and trying to get these wins. We've just got to believe in each other.

Feeling good about the way you look at the gym gives you an incentive to go.

I spend more time in Ball Gym because there's too many people to try working out at Irving.

I sent him out of the gym so he could calm down.

I've been surprised to a degree by how well he's doing. But when you look at his work habits and see what a gym rat he is, you're not surprised. Jack works on all kinds of stuff. He has a friend in the gym rebounding for him all the time.

I've been here 16 years so I've known him most of his life. Every year I see him in the gym and the first place I ever saw him was in a gym. He is always in a gym and always has been.

I've been going to the gym for 24 years, and I've never been lobbied in the gym. Of course I'm pretty ugly naked.

I've been in this gym for five years, and I could not stand seeing that blank wall up there. Every summer we hold a camp, and I tell the fourth- through eighth-graders, 'Look at that wall, who's going to be the first ones to get their year up there?' Thank goodness we don't have to look at that wall anymore.

I've been in the gym a lot trying to fix my shot and changing some things. I've been working on it hard.

It wouldn't have been a good feeling because we wouldn't be able to get into the gym tomorrow and get that bad taste out of our mouths.

I used to play against George Evans at the gym at Aberdeen Proving Ground. He was the same player then that he was when he came to college. He had the big eyes. I always played against the older guys.

I've played football in a gym but I've never played basketball in a football stadium.

It was a phenomenal game. It was a packed gym and everyone was buzzing after the game. The girls stepped up big time.

The second game of the season, we played in that gym we practiced in this morning, and we got our lunch handed to us.

The state gives us only so much to build a standard gym and we will have to add to it.

The thing with Anthony is that he loves to play basketball. Any time the gym's open, he's here. All summer long, he was a gym rat.

I've never been through so many ups and downs in one season. To go from starter to not playing. To go from traded to not traded and to play again, it's been crazy. It taught me to keep things in perspective and enjoy basketball. I come to the gym ready to play and good things happen.

School runs, lost gym kits, oh my lord it's all kicking off again but I wouldn't have it any other way,

Our energy level was a bit low. Just before tip-off we hear all this fuss over at the entrance to gym and we look and Hilton is standing over there. He made a big splash with everybody in the stands. It just kind of energized our whole team.

People start out in January with great excitement and wonderful resolutions, and rush into joining a gym without doing a lot of comparison shopping or giving much thought to what it is they want from one.

People believe that if Jones wins, he'll retire, ... If Tarver wins, he should fight me again unless he's a coward. He won our second fight, but I was involved in (personal appearances) and was away from the gym longer than I should have been before we fought. I won't let that happen again.

Open the gym up, roll the ball out, put the kids out there and have all the adults stay home, and you'll have a great game.

The most important thing to me is to be playing well. We need to win some games away from Alumni Gym because the tournament isn't being played there.

Streamers in the gym just do not cut it anymore. It's not cheap to go to prom.

Some breaks went our way, and we know how tough (the Jacks) are. Three years ago, they kicked us, physically, in the semifinals. And two years ago, they kicked us in this gym to end our season.

Now I go to the gym every opportunity I get. (I'm there so often), my dad tells me not to go to the gym.

During preseason we looked up at the banner in the gym and realized that we needed to start putting numbers back on it, ... It was pretty pathetic.

Coaches have started doing things that Lincoln has been doing for years ? taking kids to team camps, putting them in the gym (in the summer) and making sure they play. We're just finally catching up with them.

Coach always tells me to stay in front of my guy and work hard on defense, and that's what I've tried to do. It's great to play here and I love it here because of the atmosphere. The energy you feel when you walk into this gym is awesome, and you have to come ready to play because everyone is here to watch us.

Anybody who leaves the gym tonight is going to say this team played hard. Did we win the game? No. But if we play this hard, we?re going to have a much better chance. That?s what they can control.

Anything beats practicing in a gym right now.

And the nice thing is that we're talking about modest exercise, not two hours in the gym every day.

A new auxiliary gym would be nice. There's not enough room for all of the teams to practice.

Ashley brought her all-around game to the gym every night. There really isn't any part of the game that she can't do, and her ability to shoot the three really helped us open up our offense. On the defensive side, she is just a very, very hard worker and that work ethic rubs off on the other players.

As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.

As being a Washingtonian I just think that Howard is a great institution. I mean this Gym was built in what 1963, so of course there are some things that need to be improved upon. So I need to get the student-athletes that have graduated to give back, because that is what is going to get us going. I have to convince the alumni to get on board, because there are some things that the university can't do alone.

A week and a half in the gym is what happened to us.

A wrestler, who also worked there part-time, he had told me about it. I went to their gym and I watched training sessions. As soon as I was down there I had this electric urge. I was like 'I really want to do this.' I eventually did six months at that training facility.

Al has always had a burning desire to be a good player. He spends more time in the gym by himself than anyone we've had. For him, it was just a matter of adjusting to our style and feeling comfortable. He's now reacting and not thinking.

You've got two fine programs with so much athletic ability, and the personnel in this gym is just unbelievable. You've got some great players who were just dropping (to the floor) for everything here. This was like a major tournament.

You only get better by playing with better people. That's why in this practice gym we have to get better and make our biggest strides and when we are in the games make sure we take care of business.

This is exactly what we thought the game would be. They are a very good team. Our big kids were the key to everything and our guards played good defense and controlled the game. It's tough to beat an undefeated team. To do it in their gym is even tougher.

This is a special group of guys. After a big win or a big loss, all season they came back in the gym with an even keel, ready to work hard.

This is not a program you could do in your home, unless you can afford to have a full gym in your basement.

This is probably the most athletic team I've had. They jump higher, they're quicker and they're in the gym all the time.

This is one of the first times I've stepped into the gym and I'm the tallest person there. I'm just over 5-8, so we're going to have to play tenacious defense and we're going to have to hit the ball smarter, finding better places to put and look for holes.

This is the chance for the non-athletic kids to have their moment. It's the kids who don't get picked first in gym who are up there.

The whole gym environment, especially if it's machine-based, focuses on very fixed, linear-path movements, but the body doesn't really work that way in real life.

This class is special in the fact that they were completely dedicated to basketball. They're all I've known as far as coaching is concerned. The thought of going back to the gym and not having them is unimaginable.

This gym owns us in the second quarter the last two games.

They're the only friends that I've had consistently throughout high school. We've put in so many hours in the gym and the weight room that we know each other so well. We have a lot of respect for each other, and this was a big part of my life that I'm going to miss now.

They've been itching. We've been in the gym during the winter. Once they got a chance to get outside and on the field, they got going.

They're 6-10, 6-6 and 6-6. The two 6-6 kids play like they're 6-10 because they can jump out of the gym and they're quick and very athletic. That's a good team, man.

And I had them at the gym at 7:30 this morning for breakfast. You can't roll out of bed and onto a court.

There's a lot of electricity in the gym all the time. The crowd is juiced.

There's a board in the gym with the records on it. I have a feeling our names are going to be up there for a while.

There may be a reason to have a gym installed in your home. It covers capital improvements as prescribed by a doctor that don't increase the value of your home.

There may be a reason to have a gym installed in your home,

This is the third sellout in the last four games. I got here at 4:30 and I had to park three blocks away. There was still a line to get in the gym at 4:30. There were people lined up at 1:30 today to get in here. That's what's special about this league. When we go over there, it will be the same way again.

This is what we wanted. We were hoping to play White Oak in their gym in the championship game with a nice crowd. I thought this was a really great game for us.

They're awesome. We're going to have to play our best game of the year to be in the same gym with them. It's going to take an exceptional effort.

There was a lot of knowledge floating around in that gym today.

At first, the kids weren't showing up at the gym because of transportation and motivational reasons. We came in and provided rides and mentoring services to the kids.

A big complex with a gym in it, a weight room, a music studio, a photo lab, a computer lab.

A boxing gym is a melting pot. In my gym, I have Palestinians training next to Israelis. I have men and women ... as young as 7 and my oldest is 79.

It's just what I do. Being out as long as I've been out, I'm just trying to get myself into condition. I just try to work myself extra. We get into a city, just give me a gym and a ball and I go.

It's a tough gym to play in. They have great fans and it was really loud. They definitely have the home court advantage.

It's Austin. When these two teams play its big- no matter what the situation, what gym floor, whatever.

I try not to brag on certain people, but man, what can I say? She's been my leader this year. She works hard in practice. She tries to get better every day. She does the little things extra to get better. When she's struggling, she finds a gym in the evening somewhere.

It was certainly the loudest gym we've played in this year. There were some disruptions that we had between myself and the players.

It was fun to get to coach (my seniors) again. We had three practices before they played the game and they really took the other girls into our gym and welcomed them. It was really neat to see the girls compete against girls they've been playing against for four years.

It was a thrill for me to have that opportunity. I still enjoy coaching basketball. I guess I'm just an old gym rat, that hasn't changed much over the years.

It was a sweet win. The gym was packed and it was rocking. It was a good high school scene.

It was incredibly emotional. It was hard for them to take care of business. I'm proud of them for staying together as a team when they were hurting as much as they were. The girls and I are really concerned about her family. Our thoughts and prayers are with them. The girls walked into the gym in tears.

It's awesome. Pretty much the whole way through the playoffs, it's been like home-court advantage. They fill up half the gym most nights. It's a key factor, it definitely helps us.

It's a great achievement. He wasn't born with it, he's worked hard for it. He's a gym rat, always in the gym working. He enjoys the game of basketball and has earned everything he's gotten.

It's a real boxing gym run by Freddie Roach. But a lot of actors go there. I know Cuba Gooding Jr. does, and Mario Lopez and Wesley Snipes. Matt is going to be in for a big surprise.

It's a little difficult playing against coach Weaver. Everything we called out, he was familiar with. I'd call an offensive set and they knew exactly what to expect. It was like practice. You call something, and everyone in the gym knows what it is.

It's a learning process. I've just got to get back to the gym and get better. ... I feel grateful for the opportunity to be out here and compete.

I told them that they did a really good job of executing our game plan for about 20 minutes. We have to carry that through for a full 40 minutes next time. I don't think anyone walked out of the gym tonight without thinking that we can compete at the highest level.

I train hard Monday to Friday. I'll do weights and cardio in the gym most mornings and do a spinning class, too.