Mat Fraser

My day - every day - revolves around training, diet and recovery.

— Mat Fraser

That's why I got sober. To be better.

— Mat Fraser

I had an amazing career, but you've got to take the good with the bad.

— Mat Fraser

Thankfully, I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish in CrossFit.

— Mat Fraser

I hate eating real food for breakfast.

— Mat Fraser

I'm usually going into competitions fairly scared.

— Mat Fraser

You shouldn't look at blue light for 90 minutes before bed.

— Mat Fraser

I hate eating breakfast. Hate it, hate it, hate it.

— Mat Fraser

I'm trying to inspire people to have a better work ethic, or chase whatever they want to chase.

— Mat Fraser

I've set-up my life to basically revolve around the most ideal training situations at all times.

— Mat Fraser

I never want to achieve a goal and feel done. I want to be striving. I want to be striving for perfection,…

— Mat Fraser

I'm still demanding a lot from my body and need to make sure I give back to it.

— Mat Fraser

I have everything I need right at my house. Even down to a massage table, a sauna, an ice bath, it's all…

— Mat Fraser

Waking up naturally to light is way better. It feels way better than waking up to an alarm.

— Mat Fraser

Anytime you have a chance to talk to someone that knows more than you on a certain subject, take it.

— Mat Fraser

Having this addictive personality can be a benefit if I'm addicted to things that have a positive outcome.

— Mat Fraser

For a while, I got a kick out of people asking me what I was up to and being able to say,…

— Mat Fraser

It's random every day - conditioning, weightlifting, metabolic conditioning. A lot of it depends on what I did the day before. If…

— Mat Fraser

I try to live in my own little positivity bubble and to keep good people around me who encourage me and build…

— Mat Fraser

All the athletes have a place to put our feet up in between events, and as soon as I get back, while…

— Mat Fraser

The biggest mistake I see with people who are new to CrossFit is trying to advance too quickly. Just because you can…

— Mat Fraser

I built a phenomenal home gym with the intent of having two of everything so that my friends could come over and…

— Mat Fraser

Whether it's to get stronger, get better cardio, get fitter or you want to lose weight, on the day-to-day scale, you're probably…

— Mat Fraser

When I lived at the Olympic Training Center, every platform had a camera pointed at the platform, and then each platform had…

— Mat Fraser

During high school and the early years of college, I thought everyone woke up tired. I thought being groggy for the first…

— Mat Fraser

Life was simpler when I was competing because I woke up and I knew the job at hand, you know? I had…

— Mat Fraser

When people try to have those mindset talks, if it's a forced situation or just the atmosphere isn't right, I always found…

— Mat Fraser

Unless I go through my nighttime routine of telling my body it's time to go to bed, for some reason if I…

— Mat Fraser

I'm very selective with who I work with.

— Mat Fraser

I had big goals, I wanted to go to the Olympics.

— Mat Fraser

I break each day down to setting daily micro goals.

— Mat Fraser

I'm usually up between 7:30 and 8:30 in the morning.

— Mat Fraser

All the changes I've made in my career added up over time.

— Mat Fraser

I'm always trying to take care of those little stabilizers everywhere.

— Mat Fraser

I remember, rowing took me forever and it took me so much time and coaching to get it right.

— Mat Fraser

My home gym is, I don't want to say absurd, but if every gym in the world was shut down I wouldn't…

— Mat Fraser

Before most events, I dry-heave or throw up, because I'm so nervous. It's not enjoyable.

— Mat Fraser

If I'm in a situation that allows it, I can stay up until 5 A.M. without batting an eye, not even a…

— Mat Fraser

Proper squatting is probably one of the best movements to make you better and healthier for life.

— Mat Fraser

You've got to be surrounded by good people - people you belong with, who are like-minded.

— Mat Fraser