Zitat des Tages von Michael Johnson:
They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.
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.
The only one who can beat me is me.
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.
I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.
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.
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.
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.
I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.
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.
One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.
Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.
I always wanted to be a sprinter.