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Madonna is an athlete; she has to be treated like a professional athlete. She doesn't work out for six hours a day, though, like some of the press says. She never works out for more than two hours a day, and then only when she has the time.

With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.

I train my entire body to be strong. To be a professional athlete, we need every part to be strong - the core, the legs, arms.

I'm not an educated woman. What am I gonna do for the rest of my life? I'm an athlete... And now I have absolutely nothing.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

As a kid, playing sports, I was never the best athlete on my teams, but I was always the guy people looked at as the workhorse.

St. Louis is a city where kids look up to you so much. Especially young black kids - when they see someone like myself, a black athlete, a black St. Louis Cardinal, that's something that they relish. I go to the community just to say what's up to them, bring some smiles to their faces.

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.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

For the longest time people were like, 'Oh you play soccer, what else do you do?' Cause they couldn't believe that you could just be women's professional athlete. That's really frustrating because it's almost devaluing your actual skill and ability.

I've been through every surgery that any athlete has ever been through, and I've prevailed through it.

Retiring as the champion and being the only athlete to ever do that, I think goals like that are set in the mind. I want to make that happen.

Anybody who wants to compare Pele to any other athlete... do you know what I do? I hear but I don't listen.

It is inhumane to put sole responsibility on one athlete.

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. The Olympics are the most important race. They're each four years, and everybody wants to show their best performance.

A little-known secret is that being a pro athlete is not that great. It's a pretty short lifespan. I know all these parents are out there driving their children to be professionals, but so many pros will tell you, 'No, you don't want to do this.'

I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them.

The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.

Hydration is a key thing, as an athlete yes, but also for your skin, and I do notice the biggest difference when I stay hydrated.

Part of being an athlete is constantly striving for more. We're looking for perfection in a world where that doesn't exist. No matter what we do and what we accomplish or how we perform, we're always looking at areas we can improve upon.