"To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage."
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"In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level"
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"I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously."
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"One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete."
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"My favorite thing about being linked to Oakley is getting to hang with the cool people, the cool athletes - like the X-Games guys. Those guys play sports where they can really hurt themselves, and, well, I just play golf. I'm like the wimpy guy over here."
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"By being an elite athlete a lot of people think that you can go away or go places and get away with things. I'm more of the laid-back person. I don't have to go and skip the line. I don't have a problem waiting."
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"As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there."
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"I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body."
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"One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!"
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"Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together."
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"I am in control. What athlete you know doesn't call the shots? I have the final say."
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"It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate."
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"I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company."
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"With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people."
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"We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen."
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"I'm an athlete rep, so I'll be available if they need me for anything"
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"Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. 'Champion' is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes."
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"I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems."
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"When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end."
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"The reality is that there are half a billion kids in India, in villages, who have a pre-determined life. If they're very lucky and they're a gifted athlete, maybe they can compete for the Olympics, or maybe they can get into the military. But if you're not a gifted athlete, then you're going to end up working for your family and you're going to perpetuate what your family is. It's gotten to the point, in villages, where there's no hope. And the first spark of hope is when you ask yourself the question,"What gift did God give me that I can develop and use to better my life?""
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