Top 35 Weight Room Quotes

For me I want to be a voice and consummate professional, be in the weight room and stay after practice.

When I came out of college, I wasn’t much of a weight room juggernaut. I was drafted in the 10th round out of the University of Idaho after literally begging teams to work me out.

I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.

Whether it’s in the weight room or extra stretching, you never know when you’re going to need that little extra oomph.

We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wanted to come out and be as good as any team in the state, to prove we could hang with any team at any time.

I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can’t simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room.

Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don’t. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can’t just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

Physically I feel like I put in great work in the weight room.

During the offseason, when you don’t have the worries and the grind of the games and the wear and tear of your body, you can really attack the training element a lot harder. More load on your body, more stress – whether that be through running or in the weight room with the lifting program that you’re doing at the time.

Being paid as a professional athlete didn’t change how hard I was working because I’m always going to do that, whether it’s the weight room or the film room.

Being in the weight room has helped me. Defensively, it helps because I’m not getting backed down easily. My legs are stronger, so I can move my feet better.

I take the role of leadership as the most important job I have. Yes, it’s the passes and all the different things you have to do, but it’s leading and it’s in the huddle and it’s in the weight room and the meeting rooms. It’s that role I think comes first.

I think offensive linemen generally took the weight room and the workouts much more seriously, because we saw that it was a vital part of our training. We needed to be big and strong, and our muscles needed to be in good shape to handle the beatings.

Me, guarding the best post players in the league, it definitely takes a toll on your body. But that’s why I get massages regularly, cold tub, foot baths, rest and the weight room.

I’m taking care of my body, getting my treatment, I’m in the weight room… I’m doing everything I can to stay healthy, and hopefully the genetics kind of take over from there.

Being a strongman is a real test of functional strength. What can you pick up, carry and how fast can you move it. It’s not a weight room strength, it takes brute strength and power to lift, carry and pull all types objects from fire engines, Mack trucks, transport planes and large stones.

By the time the season’s over, I’m ready to get back in the weight room and start training as far as getting stronger.

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

Knowing that you’re all in for a championship and you have that mindset and feel throughout the group. Every day it’s working towards something. That’s an exciting feeling to know when you walk in the gym, or in the weight room, it’s for a championship.

I don’t know what cancer did to me but I put on probably 10 pounds of muscle and got a lot stronger in the weight room and during our dry-land stuff.

I was thinking back when Karl Malone and I, when one of us would be in the weight room early in the morning, and the other one wasn’t there, the first comment to the other person would be, ‘It’s mighty lonely up here.’

I spend around three hours on the track and two hours in the weight room, five or six days a week.

There is nothing better than to make it to the College World Series. All of the extra reps in the weight room, all of the early morning practices, and all the hard work spent the entire year makes it worth it.

Try to be one of the first people in here, work your butt off in the weight room, asking questions, try to prepare yourself like a pro, like a vet. Stuff like that is what sits well with your team.

My mom would always travel with us to everything; my dad introduced us to the weight room and showed us how to properly work out.

In some cases where the team is mixed, there’s almost two practices going on in one, where your young guys are getting the work they need, and the older vets are in the weight room getting strength and conditioning.

We took the handcheck out of the game to give guys like Steph Curry more freedom. Why didn’t we say, ‘Just get in the weight room and get stronger?’

I work extremely hard in the weight room, and also on the court to get better and make sure I keep my body in shape.

Whether you’re praying, meditating, you’re getting silent, relaxing your mind… and you definitely want to train hard – in the weight room, on the track. You need to do all of it.

I’m not one of those guys who gets stronger in the weight room.

If you go out once a week, they can blast on you that you’re always out all the time, but I always put work first, and people sometimes don’t see the side of going into the weight room, behind-the-scenes-type stuff with football.

The weight room prevents you from getting injuries, keeps your body durable and, working out even during the season, it helps a lot. It keeps your body loose, it keeps strengthening your body, especially the functional stuff.

That’s an exciting feeling to know when you walk in the gym, or in the weight room, it’s for a championship.