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People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.
More than 10,000 athletes came to Atlanta seeking Olympic medals. Only a few of them will be lucky and skilled enough to claim one.
The NCAA is one of the worst organizations - maybe the worst organization - in sports. They certainly don't care about the athlete.
As an athlete you've got to watch your hydration and your nutrition, and use the right kinds of fuel to help you perform your best.
Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.
My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.
When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.
I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
I would never advocate the use of dope because, you know, I'm not a professional athlete and I don't have access to the good stuff.
I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.
Johnny was an athlete who didn't play sport. His first love was baseball, but he didn't think he had it in him to be a professional.
Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.
One of the most important aspects of an athlete's financial life is that he needs to be personally responsible for his own finances.
People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.
Competitiveness drives my blood. I'm an athlete at heart and I just love the competition. I can't live without it. It's just a rush.
Henry Cejudo is going to become the greatest combat athlete of all time, being an Olympic champ and a two-division champ in the UFC.
In the old days, athletes got worked up about the strict rules - today they get worked up about these rules being ignored elsewhere.
I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems.
I know that if I'm going to take myself to where I want to go as an athlete and a person, I have to look at all my training options.
I think every athlete that’s just out here for the Olympics just does something to inspire those around them and inspire each other.
I guess I'm just not the film femme fatale type. I giggle too much. I have freckles and a turned-up nose, and I walk like an athlete.
As runners we all have the same challenges and share the same experience, with the goal to accomplish something and better ourselves.
Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.
People say I wasn't a real athlete, but I trained hard. It's possible to take something seriously and still have fun at it, you know.
I'm a huge fan of Conor McGregor, an incredible athlete. What he has done for MMA is phenomenal; he has been a great supporter of me.
Treat yourself like an overweight, out of shape person and that's what you will be. Why not train and treat yourself like an athlete?
I've been an athlete that's sort of in advance; always thinking. After basketball I'd love to have my own radio show, my own TV show.
The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.
When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.
Serena Williams is the greatest tennis player of all time, the greatest female athlete of all time, the greatest athlete of all time.
You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.
Being a comedian is a lot like being an athlete. If you're Carl Lewis and you're the fastest, then no matter what you're the fastest.
Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.
When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.
Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.
When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.
Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.
In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
I'm a Gatorade athlete because dance is being recognized as a sport now. It always should have been, but now it is. It's very exciting.
Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.
Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.
Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think.
Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.
If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.
I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.