We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're my weaker events - they don't come as naturally to m….

The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, an….

Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over..

May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your….

Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race..

The difference between me and other athletes is that I'm speaking on things that I go through that I know other people go through. I think a lot of t….

All skills are perfected through the process of failure. Embrace loss as a necessary part of improvement..

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure..

If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your bo….

Back in high school, about two years ago, I was in this silly punk band called Ballet for Athletes. We were all trying to take it seriously, and then….

As a professional athlete, there aren't too many things as gratifying as being on the front of a box. Whether it be a cereal box or a game box. It's ….

The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour de France. Maybe we sho….

The main thing about Bruce Lee is that, he was a little guy. And you know, his quickness, his aggressiveness, his explosive power, you have to be a g….

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists..

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and ….

I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in t….

Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack..

As a believer, I know that Jesus Christ has a plan and it's not going to be my plan. It's not always succeeding and looking back it's amazing looking….

Made up of corallitic accretions and painful increments, lit on rare occasions by bolts of revelation, and then stuffed behind the wainscotting to gr….

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete..

Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes..