Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson
One of the best track and field athletes in history, he won four Olympic gold medals and eight more World Championship gold medals.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRunner
Date of Birth13 September 1967
CityDallas, TX
CountryUnited States of America
athlete average lunch
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.
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You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
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(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success
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As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.
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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.
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You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
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A bird, music and food -desert island items
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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.
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Be who you are in every situation.
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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.
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A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.
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The only thing you can never change is your values.
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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.
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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.