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It's time and nutrition. We eat the same way we've always eaten, but we haven't been to the gym for the last eight months.

It's too bad. He was hurt all year. He worked his butt off in the gym to get back. He's a great guy and he was great in the dressing room. Then he comes back (from the wrist injury) and there goes the ankle in the last game. He had injuries all year.

It started this summer. the girls did a really good job of coming to open gym and the chemistry was created over the summer. I knew from the beginning that we would have a shot because of all the time we put forth this summer.

It's a lot like exercise. If you go to the gym and work out, you're strengthening you're strengthening and stretching your muscles. It gives you a healthier body overall. It's an area of the body that needs a lot of attention. It literally undoes what years of wear and tear have done to your feet." ()

It's always interesting to remember them their first couple days in the gym as wide-eyed freshman, who were really trying to figure out what was going on, what to do. And four or five years later, they're leaders of the team.

It's good for us to seen Brendan working so hard. Most big men, they stop working at a certain point. This is his fifth year and he's gotten better each year. He was in the gym the whole summer working on his body, trying not to get out of shape; so he should have a good year.

It's hard to shoot 67 percent when you're in the gym by yourself. So that tells me we didn't play well on defense. We didn't show any defensive intensity.

It's been more work than people think. I've been going from this place to that place doing a lot of appearances. Most of the time I've been in Denver working out; I usually get in the gym at about nine in the morning and don't get out until two in the afternoon. The rest of the day I'm sleeping because I'm tired. It's been tough the last few months.

It's rewarding to know that I have young people in the gym who have the same goals as I had, and now I can help them reach those goals.

Consumers are more likely to buy a second television or DVD player for the bedroom or perhaps a second MP3 player for the gym bag.

That is a tough place to play. It's a little gym and you've got people screaming and yelling all game long. It's what high school basketball is all about.

That really is a tough place to play. The gym is dark and the student body packs the stands. It's like a madhouse in there. We need our fans to come out and offset some of that.

It's so weird, ... Last summer, it seemed I'd never get to the Olympics. Life is going by faster now that I'm not in the gym much. I don't have to train at that same intensity.

It's so spread out, you're driving from gym to gym to gym and you can barely get there. We'll cover as much ground as we can. Typically we've had two people at Boo, but we won't be able to do that this weekend.

It's small, but when it's full, it's better than any big gym I've ever been in. It's just a great atmosphere.

It's strictly development for the next year even though he's 25-0. He's a nice kid, a funny kid and easy to get along with. He's not out drinking or carousing. He's just in the gym working very hard.

Eighteen months is a long time to just be out there playing in an open gym and not being coached. Not being able to work on your conditioning, your strength, your game the way you would be in an organized and disciplined situation.

Everyone in the gym knew Rondo was going to get it. My main concern was not let him get to the lane.

Everyone in the gym knew he was going to take those shots. A lot of guys say they want to take the big shot. Rashad always wanted to take the big shot. He still does.

Not since high school when we might play with all the gym doors open.

That gym 's going to be hopping. It's going to be an exciting game.

It's important to acknowledge progress toward your goals. For example, tell yourself that if you go to the gym 12 times in the next three weeks you'll treat yourself to a massage. Just make sure the reward is something like a massage and not a milkshake.

It's definitely nice. It's kind of like home-court advantage because I played here two years in high school and then a bunch of times in college. I'm real familiar with the gym and the baskets have nice shooting rims. I'm glad we're back in Denver.

It never felt quite right to be in a gym and not be coaching. When 1 or 2 p.m came around, I always felt myself being pulled toward the gym.

It's a matter of how much they accept him. I can't see him coming up here, I think it would be tough for him to show his face. If I did that to an Oregon player and walked into their gym in the summer, people would wonder what I was doing there.

It'll be great to have those athletes in our gym with that caliber of volleyball. You can watch it on television and you can't appreciate how hard they hit the ball. You come see it in person and it's whole different ballgame.

It just took too much energy. It's so hot in this gym that we just couldn't do that for 32 minutes.

It?s better to say, ?I?m going to go to the gym three days a week for the next three weeks,? than to say ?I?m going to lose 30 pounds in the next three months. It?s easier to see progress toward a short-term goal, and it?s not as intimidating.

It was an intense rivalry. I remember going to matches and seeing the gym packed. We weren't getting that in Brick.

It was a playoff-type atmosphere. It was for first place, the gym was crowded, there was a lot of noise It was a big game, one we really wanted.

It was nice to get this game under our belts. This is a new gym for us and I think everyone made the adjustment pretty easy. But for us, no matter where we play, we're going to focus on defense.

It wasn't (bowling in the commercial) by itself. That's just what triggered it. I must have had some things going on ahead of time. It was just a reminder that I needed to take a little bit better care of myself and (work) at the gym a little bit harder.

It was like it was out of air. It was like a street ball, not a gym ball.

It was nothing but hard work. People don't understand the amount of hours these guys spent this summer shooting the basketball. All 15 of these kids were in the gym all day working hard. They gave up a lot of their personal opportunities to build their skills and help the team. That is why we went from six wins last year to 16 now.

It was my first college road trip, and it's still the most hostile gym I've ever played in. They rallied after we built up a lead, and I definitely was rattled. I felt lucky to come out of there with a win. It wasn't pretty.

I've known Isiah since he was a little poor boy on the West Side trying to sneak into the Stadium to watch me play, and I'd leave him tickets and sometimes give him some free gym shoes. He was always a good kid who grew into a great player and a great person. So these charges don't reflect the Isiah I've grown to know over the years.

I've been working on my jump shot lately, just going into the gym and trying to work on it and it's been paying off. These last couple of games I've been hitting big threes. At the beginning of the game I was left wide open and I just took the shot and they just happened to fall.

I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous pre-season training - something I've not previously experienced. And I knocked local football on the head this winter, simply to ensure I didn't pick up any injuries.

Oh my gosh. I had to work out six days a week, two and a half hours a day. I was on a South Beach diet. I cut sugar out. Trust me, when someone tells you you have to be in a red bikini on a big screen, every single girl in my place would go to the gym (laughing).

It was a great building block for next season. The girls are already super motivated to get back in the gym and that's a good sign. They're excited with what we accomplished but eager to do even more next year.

It was a good place to go to school. We had more than most schools in the area. We got to use the college gym and all the campus facilities. The teachers changed every six weeks in every subject. I had 36 one year.

It was a great win for Cliff. His opponent is a tough guy from a tough gym and is one of the top fighters at that gym, but Cliff had the endurance. He had a lot of heart and persevered.

It was a great game, and a very tough gym to play in. It was a great win for us.

It was 8:30 a.m. and we were supposed to have basketball practice. We came in and the gym was filled with chairs because we had the Christmas pageant the night before, ... It was so hard to move the chairs and he came in to help us.

It worked out good for us, because we played at their gym first, and then at ours. (Kamehameha) had a real good game plan last night and they executed it well. But tonight we came to play mentally.

They weren't going to let someone else come into their gym and win.

They were the No. 2 seed, it was in their gym and their fans were really loud, but I was really proud of our guys that they were able to shut all that off and just focus on the basketball.

It was just an amazing feeling just to look up and you don't see any empty seats. To come out here knowing you're going to have the gym filled, to come see our team is just an amazing feeling.

It was hard to find a spot in the gym at Turtle Bay resort.

They've really tried. They're trying to buy into what we're trying to do. We've had many more good practices than bad practices. I've got to give them credit. They come to the gym and they want to learn and they're working hard. We're doing the best that we can. It's growing pains.

This is inexcusable! I have Shannon in great shape. We were back in the gym three days after the Mercer fight. As a fighter and a trainer, I consider their maneuver little more than cowardly,

This is Connecticut basketball. After suffering the embarrassment of the North Carolina game, it came to a point where we felt like we needed to win. You get tired of leaving the gym crying because you wished you played harder. We came together and won.

It's real frustrating, being on the bench and seeing my teammates going out there without me, battling. ... I'm always disappointed when I'm not playing the best that I can and I'm not playing up to my potential. I really just try to go in the gym and fix it, get a lot of shots up and clear my mind.

Anytime you walk out of the gym as district champions you can hold your head high. People around here recognize what hard work went into it.

That's a tough gym sometimes to play in. It gives you a different perspective from the floor than a normal gym. We did a pretty good job, the kids adjusted pretty well.

Every weekend in football, I'm going to the gym and working hard, ... Every week I'm working hard to get to wrestling.

As a coach, that 3-to-6 in the gym every day is what you live for,

The kids executed. There was a kid chasing Jordan around, and I think everyone in the gym knew who was probably going to get it and shoot. He did a nice job of catching it and converting it.

Their coach told me afterward that this place is crazy. But for the sectionals we'll have to use the gym and roll out the bleachers. It still will be good to wrestle at home.

Their gym had some holes in the roof and their floor sustained considerable water damage, ... But they think they have secured an alternative site, and they are planning to play.

The contents had a lot of plastic in it and everything ... there's smoke damage throughout extensive areas of the hallways and upper gym areas.

I'm going to the gym six days a week. I'm eating right. Well-balanced diet. I drink a juice smoothie every morning.

I'm going to be in the gym (today) shooting a thousand (free throws). That's the one thing I'm really mad about, the free throw that I missed.

I'm not going to say that there wasn't some good defense in there, but it was a sloppy game -- a lot of throwing the ball around the gym and we didn't finish well. It was two close ones, a win and a loss, in a good tournament. It will help us out down the line.

I'm feeling strong as I've been doing gym work five to six days a week, not every day as the body needs a day or two to recover from all the workouts. I don't want to overdo it.

I'm proud of these boys. They have improved so much the last two weeks. We outwrestled Colfax last week and lost; and tonight, I think everybody in the gym knows who wrestled better.

I'm really proud of them. I've never seen a team step up so much in every event. Across the board we got personal records, everybody doing just a little bit more than we expected. We blew the second place team, Longwood, out of the gym by 20 points. That kind of point spread is shocking.

I kind of tried to forget about it as much as possible. I really doubted myself after the game, didn't want to talk to anybody. I got into the gym the next couple weeks and practiced free throws, a couple hundred a day every day until I made them.

I kind of became a gym rat. The more results I saw, the more dedicated I became. It is such a great feeling to see your hard work pay off. I mean, if I'm gonna skip the In-N-Out burgers, there better be light at the end of the tunnel!

I like Carter to play games in. I don't like the fact that we're at a severe disadvantage because we don't have a practice facility. I've virtually practiced every hour on the clock except midnight, 1 a.m., 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. I've been in the gym at every other hour.

I love it. It's a great atmosphere, and I love it like tonight, when the gym is packed and the crowd is crazy.

I'm not a fool. I know the size difference of the school, but the reality is when I walked in the gym and had three players, I almost went home and cried. You know, what did I get myself into?

I'm new, but it definitely hurts. You want to win here. This gym has a lot of history. Sometimes that wins out.

I knew it was going to be tough getting another victory against them. We need some matches like we had last year (a 52-16 Milton win). But we lost all the close matches. We haven?t wrestled well in our own gym this year.

I knew she had the potential. She works really hard and loves the game. She is going to win a lot of ball games here at Casey. The thing I am impressed with is her maturity level as a freshman. She is like a gym rat with softball. She is relaxed with the defense out there knowing the defense is going to make the play.

I'm out of shape right now. I've been working out at my gym at home, but it's not the same as playing in an NBA game. It's going to take me about a month after I get traded for me to get back into basketball shape.

I guarantee you can't find anyone in Danville who has spent more time in the gym than Lance.

I never really thought about coaching when I was playing with him. He prepared me for what laid ahead. I found myself in the gym with the girls, running through some of the same drills. The principles he taught me about basketball helped me greatly.

I'm the guy who'll drive 250 miles tonight and be at the gym tomorrow at 10 A.M., when people are still sleeping in. I'm the guy who'll fly to Australia and find a gym. Fly back and first thing I do off the plane is work out before I shower or eat.

I'm not sure if you locked the guys in the gym by themselves they'd go 11 for 14.

I like to use the analogy of going to the gym. If you go to the gym and your goal is, 'I want to look just like David Beckham,' then that drives you to do certain things. You may never look like Beckham, but it is a goal. Cities need the same thing. They need a vision and a plan for their ideal physique.

I'm back on my bike and in the gym doing weight training so I'm pretty confident I'll be playing again at the beginning of January.

I only box. It's the only thing that keeps me sane. I can't just go to the gym and run. I'd rather die. I played volleyball and rode horses my entire life, so just, like, moving to a city and having to go the gym was just, like, so weird for me.

I had a different breakfast order at my breakfast spot, I changed that up. My route to the gym was a little different.

If you are sedentary all week long, when you do hit the gym you've got a lot more ground to cover before you see real progress.

If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym a couple of days a week. And to make matters worse for me, I've had a secondary career right along with my romance writing - cookbook author, under my real name, Ruth Glick.

If you look at the gym floor as a Web site, we get 40,000 hits a year.

In our conference, every night is a war. Webber does a great job of coming into everybody's gym and taking it to you. I think we took a giant step tonight.

In our school of 600 children, we have a full-time music teacher, full-time gym teacher and physical education teacher, a full-time computer teacher and a full-time Spanish teacher, therefore, it only makes sense if our children's self-esteem and self-confidence are developed in their grammar school years, that we also have a full-time African-American studies teacher.

I like to do one or two films a year. But I can't prepare for something until I know what it's going to be. So I find that doing some narration, or maybe a documentary, is like going back into the gym for a couple of days.

I just wanted to put the ball in Loren's hands and everyone in the gym knows that. It was Loren making a play.

I really thought Roy was going to retire after the Johnson fight. That's what he told me, and I believed it. Then, in June, I went out to his farm. Roy wasn't there. I asked where he was, and his uncle said that he was out doing roadwork. A few weeks after that, Roy got the gym cleaned up. Then he started training; and the next thing I knew, there was a fight.

I really think that's right. I really, really do. I know the kid very well and see him everyday. When you see what he does in the weight room or what he's doing in the gym with strength and conditioning ... he's a rare, rare kid.

I really feel this gym would boost the high school experience.

I really just don?t go into the gym thinking about my status or my stature. That is one of those things that you might say you want, but once it happens ? you can?t stand it.

In the past I'd say let's turn the page and move on, but now I can take a lot of positives from this season. We're in a spot now where they can start to take ownership ? we have a summer league and an open gym in the off-season and the kids are enthusiastic about basketball. It wasn't always so in the past.

If you're tired of the health club scene, and time, convenience and privacy are important to you, the home gym may offer the workout that works for you. The only commute is a walk down the hall.

I just felt good. The last couple of weeks I've been in the gym a lot, before practice, after practice. It's been paying off.

His dad and him, all summer long, are in the gym two or three times a week working on his game. He stays after practice a good half hour to 45 minutes just on his shooting drills alone. He's a kid that's self-motivated, he works hard and everything that's happened for him right now, he deserves. He's worked hard for it.

Chita Rivera is our strongest link to the Golden Age of the American Musical. She worked with all the great choreographers and composers and was present at the creation of such seminal masterpieces as The Dance at the Gym from West Side Story when the talent in the room was a veritable Mount Rushmore of the American theatre: Bernstein, Sondheim, Robbins, Laurents and Prince. I hope our show reminds audiences of what that level of theatre was like and what it still can be if the talent, the technique and the passion are there. Chita Rivera: The Dancers Life looks back in order to look forward.