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I try to help my athletes visualize their full potential, and then get out of the way as they achieve it.
All skills are perfected through the process of failure. Embrace loss as a necessary part of improvement.
Having your competitiveness and your desire as an athlete called into question is, for sure, frustrating.
Many dedicated endurance athletes don’t need to be told what to do – they need to be told what not to do.
Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?
I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best.
I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.
I think I'm a born athlete. My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.
I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.
I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn.
The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.
I'm definitely Australian and wouldn't have it any other way. I've been formed as an athlete in Australia.
College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such.
If you say an athlete doesn't need supplementation, that he can get everything through food, you're wrong.
We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.
You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.
The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.
I think the two most important parts of any athlete's workouts are his leg workouts and his core training.
But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.
I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do
If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.
Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.
I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.
I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.
Any time, as an athlete, you taste victory, you taste the top of the mountain, you want to get there again.
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
I found it tough to follow an athlete's lifestyle. But soon, it became a part of my life, and I embraced it.
I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.
I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.
It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence and joy that is unique to each of us.
The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.
When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
As an athlete, the body can fail you. I know. The mind and your education will be there to keep carrying you.
I'm not your average athlete. I'm good at other things. I'm not just a basketball player. I'm multi-talented.
When I watch a singer perform, or an athlete, I can't help but be driven to be the best I can be at my craft.
I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.
My dad was a great athlete growing up, and he could never fulfill his dreams of playing professional baseball.
Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.
We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.
I wouldn't take any of my injuries back; I feel like I'm stronger as an athlete because of all those setbacks.
It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.