Accounts Quote by James McKeen Cattell

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and…

— Johnny Weissmuller

But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.

— Picabo Street

“SECOND NECESSITY FOR MENTAL TOUGHNESS: TRAINING   It’s long been known that athletes and soldiers need to prepare by training the physical actions they’ll…

— Sebastian Marshall

“People think doping is for lazy people who want to avoid hard work. That might be true in some cases, but in mine, as…

— Daniel Coyle

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

— Joe Rogan

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Harvard psychologist Amy Cuddy has demonstrated that standing for two minutes in a ‘power pose’ – a stance in which we expand our body…

— Matt Lewis

“Mutual suffering bred solidarity when testosterone was not involved”

— Tim Tigner

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

— Lance Armstrong

“Battles within, akin to bodybuilding, are to be done by oneself.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

“although the mechanism isn’t clear yet, strenuous exercise changes the categories of genes that prevent the development of chronic inflammation, which more and more,…

— Deborah Kesten

“testosterone’s actions are contingent and amplifying, exacerbating preexisting tendencies toward aggression rather than creating aggression out of thin air.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky