Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a ….
If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail..
I'm not an expert on how to configure the sport, but I can observe and say that accidents seem to be a part of it. The athletes are incredible, with ….
I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime..
We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race..
I thought the race could be won in the last kilometers in the park. Every hill I ran in training I ran to gain an extra step in the park..
Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'..
You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists..
Sometimes we want to have growth without challenges and to develop strength without any struggle. But growth cannot come by taking the easy way. We c….
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..
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….
So much of our future lies in preserving our past..
There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved..
Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myse….
I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing.
We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not..
If you want to be a top athlete you have to be a little bit wild, not be an accountant..
Marketers know that if people you respect - perhaps laughably including entertainers and athletes - say they like a product, you're more likely to bu….
In all of nature structure determines function. Yet many people consider the marathoner and football linebacker all to be just one composite human be….
There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human..
You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult..