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I always wanted to be a sprinter.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Sprinters
Wanted
Always Wanted
Sprinter
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Be who you are in every situation.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Inspirational
Be Who You Are
Situation
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The only one who can beat me is me.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Motivational
Track
Warrior
Me Who Only
Me
Only
Who
Beat
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A bird, music and food -desert island items
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Bird
Desert
Islands
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(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Inspirational
Motivational
Hard Work
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The only thing you can never change is your values.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Inspirational
Never Change
Values
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You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Inspirational
Motivational
Goal
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The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Motivational
Discipline
Self
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A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Know How
Mind
Traveller
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Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Motivational
Opportunity
Challenges
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As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Motivational
Discipline
Strong
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As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Comfortable
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You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Inspirational
Motivational
Motivation
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How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Inspirational
Bronze Medal
Stupid
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Don't shoot for something unattainable - completely outside of your nature or opportunity.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Inspirational
Motivational
Opportunity
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When you're gone I can go running though the house screaming and no one will ever hear me.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Running
Gone
Honesty
House
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There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Differences
Goal
Training
Complete
Difference
Event
Specific
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You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Inspirational
Motivational
Unorthodox
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A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
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They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Gold
Somebody
Beating
Medals
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I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Father
Hard Work
Husband
Mission
Manager
Work Hard
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Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Inspirational
People
World
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I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Feelings
People
Predicting
Strong
Strong Feeling
People Will Always
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Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Athletic
Believe
Descendants
Slavery
Believe Me Difficult
Believe I Believe Me
Gene
Superior
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One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Competing
Goal
Race
Technique
Focusing
Main
Techniques
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Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Inspirational
Life Changing
People
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It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Inspirational
Arrogance
Humility
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On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Funny
Inspirational
Winning
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You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Competition
Race
Except
Execute
Task
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They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Motivational
Thinking
Track
Weak
Shoulder
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Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Cocky
Doubted
Footwear
Gold
Shoes
Considered
Confident
Deliver
Match
Medals
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I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Disappointed
Doe
People
Way
Best Me People
Absolute
Expect
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All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Determination
Generations
Impossible
Left
My Own
Thinking
All My Life
Became
Believed
Descended
Imprint
Slaves
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I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Careers
Gold
Medal
Olympics
Professional Career
Years
Tremendous
Gold Medal
Tremendous Amount
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Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Quality
Eye
Ruins
Tongue
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Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Life
Motivational
Opportunity
Running
Work
Best
Sports
Given
Hard
Hard Work
Long
Marathon
Moments
Life Work Hard Work
Life Best Work
Like
More
Being
Perform
Brief
Compared
Often
Sprinter
Which
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As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Average
Lunch
Massage
Work Day People
Work Day Training
Breaks
Packed
People Say
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I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
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The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Sports
Athlete
Losing
Psychology
Results
Winning
Absolutely
Achieving
Athletes
Extremely
Small
Instrumental
Races
Second
Small Part
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That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Inspirational
Motivational
Climbing
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Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Running
Men
Sports
Mean
Seconds
Butch
Championships
Talented
Holder
Races
Rivalries
World Record
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All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations. Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Descendants
Determination
Difficult
Impossible
Left
Slavery
All My Life
Became
Believed
Gene
Hear
Imprint
My Life
Slaves
Superior
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The only way to deal with loss - as a horribly unwelcome guest that you know will show up eventually. And so you deny it and reject it and ignore it and laugh in its face. You toss it out into the street and push it away and fight it off, and only it has landed square in your lap, only then do you deal with it.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Motivational
Success
Loss
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It is clearly not the journey for everyone. People succeed in as many ways as there are people. Some can be completely fulfilled with destinations that are much closer to home and more comfortable. But if you long to keep going, then I hope you are able to follow my lead to the places I have gone. To within a whisper of your own personal perfection. To places that are sweeter because you worked so hard to arrive there. To places at the very edge of your dreams.
Michael Johnson / Olympic Athlete
Dream
Inspirational
Motivational
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