Quotes About Athletics

Early in the season, you're going into races feeling confident because you've done the work and that confidence gives you an extra five or 10 per cent.

Running had become such an obsession that even when asleep, I would run races in my dreams.

I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.

Racing is very physical.

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

Once in a great while I miss the racing, the feeling of winning. That rush. That adrenaline.

I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I have a good VO2 max - I can hold a lot of air in my lungs - and that definitely helps.

I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

I'm not against competitive racing. I obviously grew up with horses.

I like football, baseball, basketball, golf, racing.

Some days you really don't feel like racing and you have a great performance, some days you feel great and you have a mediocre performance.

I'm competitive in everything I do. And that started young. Heck, I started racing bicycles when I was 3.

I always love racing the 100 fly, it has just always been an event that I enjoy.

It's hard to fall asleep after a game. I often go to sleep at 4 A. M. because I'm thinking about the game and my mind is racing.

I think when guys watch me play, I think that raises the level of other guys because of the way I play the game.

I don't think too many guys are raising their hands trying to fight me.

On clay, you know that you have much longer rallies, and you must run for maybe two or three hours.

Svitolina moves a little bit better than Ostapenko but Ostapenko goes for it a little earlier in the rallies. The way she plays she can take you out of the equation.

I was very disciplined growing up. If I didn't want to run hills, I ran hills; if I didn't want to jog around the block, I jogged around the block.

Where I'm from, Bastrop, Louisiana, you played football, basketball, and baseball; you ran track - and that was about it.

I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.

There are a lot of details to running that I never even thought about. I just went out and ran. I think I can be faster. I think I can be quicker.

When I look back at my career, I want to say I accomplished certain things and ran certain times.