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I know that I do deserve good things.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Deserve
Good Things
Knows
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Sometimes success is simply being willing to give it your all.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Give It Your All
Giving
Sometimes
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If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Enjoy
Swim
Want
Life Me My Life
Fast
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To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Looks
Swimsuits
Water
Pick
Swimsuit
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Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Pool
Three
Want
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I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Mom
People
Swimmer
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I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Motivational
Athlete
Preparing
Race
Swim
Swimming
Me Think About
Swimmers
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The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Community
Conservative
Swimming
Clothing
Whatsoever
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Some people like to focus on other aspects of my life, but first and foremost I am a dedicated and top swimmer.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Firsts
Focus
People
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My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Yoga
Sports
Athlete
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When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Anna
Compliment
Gorgeous
People
Winning
People Say
Wins
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Breaking composure, confidence, and speed in the water makes you lose the race, not the goggles that fell off your head when you dove in.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Goggles
Race
Water
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I don't underestimate the power of mental preparation throughout all of my training. I'm in a much better state of mind about competition.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Competition
Preparation
Training
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In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Baby
Bizarre
Grandma
Swimming
Calls
Oldest
Youngest
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With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Sports
Skins
Vigilant
Water
Skin
Damaging
Drying
Sport
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I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Yoga
Meditation
Mind
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I protect my skin with sunscreen and am religious about keeping my face moisturized and properly protected all day, so I also use a face lotion with SPF 30.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Lotion
Religious
Skins
Sunscreen
Use
All Day
Skin
Properly
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Malfunctions are inevitable. It's important to push through them during practice - versus stopping to fix and restart - so that you're prepared for one mid-competition.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Competition
Important
Practice
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People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Olympian
People
Swimmer
Want
Me People Stand
Blend
Introduce
Reasons
Right Reasons
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Life is all about balance: sprinting hard and fast, breathing deep and slow. Working out with my coaches, playing with my kids. Eating whole foods for fuel, enjoying a glass of wine with friends.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Kids
Breathing
Wine
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Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to peoples standards.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Practice
Swimming
Water
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I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Practice
Prison
Standards
Swim
Swimming
Escape
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When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.
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Kids
Son
Stress
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Almost religiously, I step away from everything and close my eyes and breathe deeply for a few moments. It helps solidify my focus and aligns everything in my body to take care of the task at hand - which is winning, of course.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Eye
Hands
Winning
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I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half the classes, .. I'm scared that they're going to drop me. In the fall of 2002 I signed up for five classes and had to drop three of them.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Teacher
Class
Fall
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I have kids. Unbeknownst to them, they are quick to snap me back to reality when I start feeling the pressure of being an athlete! It's a breath of fresh air to have two people to focus on; their happiness erases all the pressures I have on myself.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Kids
Athlete
Reality
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My training centered on aerobic development, meaning I'd swim longer with less intensity during the majority of my practices. As I got older, I began more weight training, and my workouts went from long at a lower intensity to shorter and more intense.
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Long
Practice
Workout
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Like anyone, I stress and get hard on myself from time to time, but it's minute compared to the pressure I used to put on myself to perform and succeed. To my kids' credit, they've probably helped me the most here: I'm more worried about what they're doing than what I'm doing!
Amanda Beard / Swimmer
Kids
Credit
Stress
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