Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by James Haskell - Page 2

As a schoolboy I can recall playing three games a week and not even feeling it.

Matches aren't won on the training field and there is no point flogging experienced campaigners unnecessarily.

It was so important to have stuff outside of rugby so you have a life balance. I took a lot of criticism for that earlier in my career and thank God I ignored what everyone else said and did what I was always going to do.

We can't have tech just for the sake of it. To maximise the potential of technology solutions you have to understand how to use them.

It's one thing to get beaten by a side who are a lot better than you, it's quite another to know you've thrown victory away in a game you should have won.

Do I respect my competition? Yeah. Do I always think that I could do a better job? Of course.

No self-respecting gym goer skips leg day.

The best players aren't necessarily the biggest.

As soon as you're put on a pedestal, you're easily knocked off it.

I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.

I've always felt Twickenham has a special aura.

The bottom line is that players have to be responsible for getting themselves in the right frame of mind.

I don't think my parents imagined I'd represent England when they first drove me to mini-rugby at Maidenhead. I was only five but mum lied about my age to get me out of the house.

I've lost count of the times I've been asked what I do for a living. When I say rugby people say: 'Yes, but what's your other job?'

Although the TV commercials will try and have you believe otherwise, there is nothing good about breakfast cereal. No matter how 'low fat' or 'high in fibre' the box tells you it is, ditching the high sugar cereals is the first step you need to take towards a better breakfast.

As a player you have to look after your body because no one else will. I'd rather be proactive than kowtow to everyone and be injured all the time.

I'm all about helping people understand more about exercise in general and more specifically on occasion, about certain key parts of their body and physique.

I was diagnosed with ADD when I was 14. Weirdly enough, I then learnt, through doing different things, to concentrate.

It doesn't matter if you've got the best team in the world, you can't play rugby on your own try-line.

When I was about 15, I learnt that training hard doesn't get easier, you just learn to push harder. That's a powerful mentality to master.

All players want nice things to be said and written about them and you have to take the reverse in equal measure.

International rugby is an unforgiving arena.

I like to think I am honest and open.

In reality, rugby is finite and unpredictable, so players need to have skills off the pitch too.

Frittatas are delicious, convenient, and can even be eaten cold - perfect if you're working against the clock to make your morning meeting.

We owe it to players, young and old, to train them thoroughly so that they can take full advantage of the insights that tech offers them. And what is true in sport also applies more widely to business.

In order to pack on the most amount of muscle from your training, you need to train specifically for hypertrophy.

In rugby I think it is good to have a bit of a persona, a bit of a character because we are one of the last things that isn't necessarily controlled.

Going to a final and winning is the best thing in life, and it makes rugby no longer a job. It makes it fun.

If you want to build a larger physique that actually makes you look like you lift, you need to train your shoulders, back, triceps, glutes, and legs more frequently. You probably also need to suck it up and train them harder than you ever have before if you want them to grow.

When I am doing something I give it 100 per cent. I work on it, do it and go onto the next thing.

If you get an opportunity to win any silverware you take it.

A lot of people make the error of thinking rugby is going to last forever and they need to quickly discover that that isn't the case.

I do not want to gain a reputation for lacking discipline because I always look to play within the laws.

I think 5G is going to make a dramatic difference in sport and beyond.

Shooting's not actually a bad place to take a girl on a date, unbelievably.

When I started my professional rugby career, in 2002, there was one guy filming training if you were lucky.

Good nutrition must be at the core of all that you do training and health wise.

At some point, the power side of the game has to peak, players can't get much bigger. Guys will be doing more footwork and explosive-speed stuff.

I'm always pretty fair-handed.