I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.
I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and an athlete and represent what a woman is at the same time.
Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think.
At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.
I'm not a woman that's an athlete! I'm an athlete!
Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
I've found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.
I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.
Everything is practice.
My three keys to success: One, work hard. Two, be your own person. And three, have a passion for what you're doing.
Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.
When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.
If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.
"She (Minnie Ruth Solomon) was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed touched by that. Or by prejudice. Or by anything the world said or did. It was as if she had something inside her that somehow made all that not count. I fell in love with her some the first time we ever talked, and a little bit more every time after that until I thought I couldn't love her more than I did. And when I felt that way, I asked her to marry me. . . and she said she would. "
It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.
They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.
Russia always has been, and I hope always will be, one of the leading international sports countries. Our athletes still produce great results in international competition, set new records and win gold medals. Yes, like any country, we might have experienced certain ups and downs with regard to results, but in no way does this cast any doubt on Russia's status as one of the leading countries in sport.
I'm a shy guy. . . I don't enjoy being bothered but I never say no to a fan. I say yes to everybody. . . even though sometimes you have some days where you don't feel like it, but it's your duty as athlete to do it. Because the fans that pay it's going to make you live, so you have to do it. So I force myself to do it all the time.
We, as athletes, have our suspicions about who's cheating, but I'm not convinced that the testing has yet caught up with what people are using or what they are using to disguise it.