“Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.” PeopleWantKindHardSchoolLevelsFindingsAthleteWho I AmLike Me Author:Sally Pearson
“The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.” PeopleBelieveHumansSportsCan DoHuman BeingsLevelsHighestAthlete Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.” KnowsCountrySometimesRunningDifficultLevelsHighestAthleteCompeting Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“It's something I deal with to this day, a fear of falling back into that darkness. I see athletes go through a similar thing. ... With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.” FallSportsLevelsDealsDarknessUnderstoodAthleteEnduranceThis DayEndurance Sports Author:Clara
“The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'” LevelsWatchesMovementProgramAthleteBroadsLoserCrossfitBiggest Loser Author:Bob Harper
“To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill for me. I dont think there was another team in any sport with that high level of athletes playing together.” ThinkingDreamTogetherSportsLevelsSeeingTeamAthleteOlympicsThrillHigh LevelBarcelonaNbcPlaying TogetherDream Team Author:Marv Albert
“I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.” WorldFirstsRememberThreeGamesLevelsWeekSittingFilledAthleteWinnerHallsMentalityDiningOlympic GamesBest Athlete Author:Daley Thompson
“Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.” WorldNeedsTryingLevelsQualityClassFitTrainingTrainAthleteCombinationQuantityWorld Class Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“Cycling is a sport of amazing athletes. Its been a privilege and a honor for me to be in this sport and to have a chance to race at the highest level.” SportsChanceLevelsRaceHonorHighestAthletePrivilegeCycling Author:Robin Farina
“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.” IfsWorldKindPersonsDifferentReadingSportsLevelsClassOne ThingCapableAthleteDefinitionsGenesCompetingAbnormalWorld ClassOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Everybody dismissed athletes as being purely physical, but when you retire, you go from such an intense brain time - study of defense, audibles, hand signals, plays, adjustments - to a level of mental inactivity that's hard to comprehend. It's a big reason why I stay so active. Creating, evolving.” HardReasonPlayHandsBigsLevelsBrainStudyCreatingAthleteActiveDefenseIntenseEvolveReason WhyRetiringSignalsAdjustmentInactivity Author:Thomas Jones
“Like anybody else, athletes like to pig out on a bit of junk food every now and then, but they also know that they couldn't do that all the time if they wanted to keep their body in peak condition to compete at the highest level.” IfsKnowsBodyWantedBitsLevelsConditionsHighestAthleteNow And ThenPigsJunkJunk Food Author:William Katt