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I'm still dominant and that's what matters, ... But rain, snow, sleet, it doesn't matter. I'm going to go out and try and win a gold medal.
One skill that separates good from almost-good runners is an ability to concentrate for an entire race, whether it is a mile or a marathon.
Every fight has been hard. Every world title I've won has been hard fought, and every European title I've won has been hard fought as well.
I think I have the ability to win any contest I enter. As long as I stay healthy and keep having fun with my skiing, there's no regressing.
I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.
I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.
I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.
It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.
I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.
You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.
The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.
If you want something bad enough, and you're having enough fun doing it, you can accomplish it. You just got to get creative and find a way.
The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.
I'm a 'what's next?' guy. I don't know what that is, but I'm excited to find out and put the same kind of energy into it as I put into track.
People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.
I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
With each year I experience, I become more relaxed. I know now what is important to listen to and what to ignore. You only get that with age.
You have to find that love within yourself. If you love yourself, you feel good about yourself, and sports help you feel good about yourself.
Spanish is actually my first language, growing up, and I understand the culture. I understand the culture; I understand what the people want.
I was an All-American at three different weight classes in college. Started off at 149, then 157, and then finished up my senior year at 165.
It's ridiculous having the pros in an amateur sport, but at the same time, there's a lot of pros who are going to struggle over three rounds.
Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.
The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face.
Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person.
I always felt a bit different. When I'm with boys, I feel comfortable. When I'm with girls, I catch feelings. It's not anything I can control.
I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.
You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.
The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.
I'm not a big guy that watches technique from my opponents. I try to do what I do best and hope that my stuff is better than their best stuff.
I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer words and even go back and edit.
I like to listen to different kinds of music - it just depends on my mood. I love Madonna, Russian singers... I like the Rolling Stones a lot!
Also, I gained lots of weight between ages 18-20 because I was drinking alcohol at night. Alcohol has lots of calories and that does not help.
I think I always prefer the long jump, high jump, and javelin. I don't like the 400 metres and the pole vault except when I'm really in shape.
Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.
I've traveled to Brazil, Europe, Asia - all in preparation to defeat Demetrious Johnson, to defeat the pound-for-pound best fighter in history.
M.M.A. is growing, and it's a basic wrestling sport. A lot of fighters are ex-wrestlers. A lot of guys take the easy way out, make quick money.
Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.
The way the podium is situated in wrestling, the first place spot is the center. So if I'm in a bathroom, I'll look for the first place urinal.
Nobody said it's going to be easy. You have to dig into yourself. Think about your family. Think about the journey itself. THINK IN THE MOMENT.
As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
I love competing. I am so competitive. I definitely need to win because I hate losing. I am the type who if I know I will lose I won't compete.
I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.
We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.
I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
I hope what people learned from watching me is that just because you do things a little differently doesn't mean you can't do them just as well.
As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick.
All one’s feeling goes into practicing exercises, many of which are set to music. Therefore, somehow dancing with boyfriends doesn’t attract me.