When I was working on the Olympic cookbook it was amazing to discover how different athletes need different types of diets. Everybody thinks that an ….

My parents were not musical, but my mom just really wanted my brother and I to learn music as well as practice sports. It's a balance for which I'm t….

I am nobody but myself..

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is gr….

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions..

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked….

Everyone in his place and a place for everyone..

God, my parents, my wife. I don't have a lot of friends, because I'm always moving around. I don't drink, so I don't hang out in bars. But they've be….

When I’m rested, I’m at my best..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very g….

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport..

My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be..

Nature is not anthropomorphic..

Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-dr….

Do something about your life now..

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime an….

Don't be afraid of your own power..

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it..

Where your life leads you, you must go.

I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism..