Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.
Carl LewisRead
My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.
Interpretation
A vegan diet can enhance athletic performance and overall well-being.
In this quote, Carl Lewis reflects on how adopting a vegan diet positively impacted his performance in track competitions. He suggests that the dietary change provided him with the necessary nutrients and energy to excel, highlighting the connection between nutrition and athletic success.
In practice
A motivational speech on how changing diet can impact performance in athletics.
Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.
I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.
I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.
Everything in food works together to create health or disease.
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.
My diabetes is such a central part of my life... it did teach me discipline... it also taught me about moderation... I've trained myself to be super-vigilant... because I feel better when I am in control.
It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.
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