Trainer Quotes

You try to keep the strength you built up during Spring Training. The trainers here are pretty good with mixing it up so you're preparing yourself and moving right along so you're not sitting there waiting. I feel like I've prepared myself. It's just going out there and performing now. - Dave Williams

You see him before the game and after the game, and he's got more bags of ice on him than anybody. He's got electricity stimulants hooked up to him. He's got three or four trainers working on him at one time. - Carson Palmer

You know there are so many people that have touched your life both on the ice and within your career in the NHL whether it be owners, GM's, coaches, players, trainers, all the way down. And that doesn't even account for all of the people that you encountered outside of the game that you met along this trip, too. - Ron Francis

You have to watch the local clubs. I'll have kids come to me and say, 'I have a membership at (a local health club). I'll just lift there all summer.' I just tell them, 'No, no. You are going to do it in front of us. I want to see you do the work.' I don't even like the personal trainers. You just don't know what's going on. There's always some guy out there who is looking to make a quick buck off a rich teenager. - Steve Struzyk

You can see it in our eyes out there that we're playing for each other. Everything wouldn't be as good as it is without all 17 girls, three coaches and our trainer and our team wouldn't be so successful if it weren't for every single person putting in a 100 percent effort into it. - Liz Vrabel

You also gain the independence to work out wherever and whenever you want. People who are dependent on a trainer tend not to exercise unless their trainer is standing right there. - Richard Cotton

Without going into great details, it turned into quite the emergency situation. Our trainer Mike Meyer was courtside and was phenomenal. We called 911 and the paramedics got there shortly. Fortunately, he had great medical care and he's doing fine. He's going to be fine. - Kevin Stallings

With the little bit of conversation I heard that took place between Sean and (head trainer) Brad Henderson, you knew it was something more than a guy getting the wind knocked out of him. Each of the first three times he got up, he felt shooting pains going down his back. - Jim Tracy