Dan Jansen
Dan Jansen
Daniel Erwin "Dan" Jansenis a retired American speed skater. A multiple world champion in sprint and perennial favorite at the Winter Olympics, he won a gold medal in his final racein the 1994 Winter Olympics at the end of his career...
ProfessionSpeed Skater
Date of Birth17 June 1965
CityMilwaukee, WI
thinking games goes-on
I think faster and, maybe more importantly, more efficiently. Not only as the game goes on, but as the season goes on.
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Either he thrives on it or he doesn't realize it. He didn't even skate on ice four years ago, and now he is an Olympic favorite.
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Maybe that slip in the 500 actually helped, ... The 500, I was on the last turn and trying, maybe, to get too much out of it.... When I slipped in the 1,000, in a split second it went through my mind: 'Don't panic. Don't try to get it all back in one stride. Just ride it out and try to accelerate out of the turn.'
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I would rather not speak about Davis. He doesn't say a lot to us. He goes his own way.
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NHL players are amazing hockey players, and you watch and go, 'It doesn't look good. They don't skate very well,
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You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success. . . . I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.
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This is probably the deepest team the U.S. has had in quite some time and that's saying a lot, because in Salt Lake City they were the most successful team the U.S. has ever had.
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I remember standing on that podium, ... and for the first time probably before or since, wishing our national anthem had more verses.
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I don't think there's any such thing as setting your goals too high. The higher you set your goals, the more you are going to work, ... If you don't reach, then it's OK, just as long as you set it and then give a hundred percent of yourself.