Quotes About Offseason

#1. Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.

Troy Polamalu

#2. I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season ... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.

Gary Sheffield

#3. When I saw that Wrestlemania had broken an indoor attendance record, I just walked into a wrestling office, Championship Wrestling in Florida, during the offseason, and they introduced me to Hiro Matsuda, who became my mentor ... and the rest is history!

Lex Luger

#4. Rest is obviously a key in the offseason.

Jamie Moyer

#5. I thought long and hard about my future this past year and during the offseason, and I've decided 2015 will be the last time I compete for a championship.

Jeff Gordon

#6. I've been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I'm not very good, but it's just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music ... very few sports are as pure as that.

Troy Polamalu

#7. In the offseason, why can't it be a little lighter? It's not life or death. I try to have a little fun, but all of my comments are true. I don't lie. If they get mad at me for saying something that isn't true, then tap me on my shoulder and say, 'That isn't true.'

Steve Spurrier

#8. No matter what you do in the offseason, you can't simulate putting spikes on and standing in the grass and being around your teammates. When you're around your teammates, you step it up a notch. It's just kind of instinctive you do that.

Jon Lester

#9. I've always had a connection here in the city from the first day I arrived. I stayed in the city. I made San Francisco my home. I was seen in the offseason at a lot of different functions, and people liked that.

Willie McCovey

#10. No, one of the great things about my three-year deal is that it's year-round. They've offered me an opportunity to cover a lot of things in the offseason, too.

Lisa Guerrero

#11. So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it's just my workout and how much torture I put my body through in the offseason.

Ray Lewis

#12. Basically, I really like to train. That's what keeps me busy during the offseason - just training and getting my body right and getting ready for the next year.

Wes Welker

#13. The calendar and the clock are all set by football season and the offseason.

Tom Coughlin

#14. I feel good, and the way I determine it is through my workout. I work so hard in the offseason that if I'm able to do everything I have to, I figure I must be healthy.

Nomar Garciaparra

#15. I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball, I continued my football workouts in the offseason.

Frank Thomas

#16. Most of the players in the league use marijuana, and I have and do partake in smoking weed in the offseason sometimes.

Josh Howard

#17. What you do during the offseason is, first, build a base. That takes about three weeks, and then you try to get as strong as you can before you go to spring training. Once you get there, you taper down and it's just a maintenance program for the next six or seven months.

Josh Beckett

#18. Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court - that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.

Patrick Ewing

#19. Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

Jamie Moyer

#20. How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?.

Cris Collinsworth

#21. Larry Fitzgerald is one of the hardest-working guys I've ever seen. We spent some time training in Minnesota last offseason, and to see what he does to get better, he has to be the best.

Kerry Rhodes

#22. I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean.

Derek Jeter

#23. I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.

Patrick Kane

#24. Every year I try to keep in excellent shape and improve some part of my game. I play in the offseason overseas to keep my game tuned up and hopefully improve a little in some area.

Sue Wicks

#25. I'm not a crybaby.

Dwight Howard

#26. Spank me, whip me, let me come back home. Break out the leather, baby.

Ray Parker Jr.

#27. I thought cobblers just ate shoe leather" Jocelyn says as she and her shadow dance by us.
I've had enough of this one. "I never have, but if you want to try leather, I'm happy to shove some down your throat.

Jen Calonita

#28. She was as bored as her brother would have been, and had not his gift of listening beneath words.

E. M. Forster

#29. When in doubt, doubt the doubt!

Deepak Chopra

#30. Orange tables are the salt of the earth.

Brent Jensen

#31. Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe, don't read this story if you're ever planning to eat again.

Louis Sachar

#32. When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.

Mariella Frostrup

#33. I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as not necessarily Christian.

Nicholas Sparks

#34. It is attachment that makes people forget not only their moral duties but even who they
really are.

Amish Tripathi

#35. Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

Ralph Boston

#36. Your thoughts and intentions have a mirroring power, make sure they are always kind and loving.

Linda Alfiori

#37. The lack of magic is what leads humans to fantasize in the first place. And Alyssa, what a wonderfully powerful force an imagination can be.

A.G. Howard

#38. Nobody can tell you to do things a way that you don't want to do them. Nobody can say really what's right or what's wrong. It's like some people don't feed their children meat. Some people do. It's a crazy world.

Kate Hudson

#39. Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Salvador Dali