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" Having my dad play for the Falcons, what it did was really to expose me to a whole bunch of other elite-level athletes, which I think gives me an advantage and allowed me to understand what goes into sports. It is more than going out onto the field and going out onto the ice and competing. "

Elana Meyers

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" I was always encouraged to participate in whatever sports I wanted to be in. "

" Most people watch a game because they're excited about it; I'll sit there and watch lacrosse championships to try to find a female who could be a bobsledder. "

" Anything worth having is worth working for. "

" For most people, they only thing they know about bobsled is 'Cool Runnings.' Well, 'Cool Runnings' was, of course, four men in a bobsled, and four-man is considered the highlight of our sport. It's what everybody knows. It's what everybody watches. And it's the big dog of our sport. "

" Being a brakeman is very physical, and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters. "

" I've been on every type of nutrition plan you can think of. "

" The Midland community is huge into softball. They have a lot of competitive men's teams. We played at a beautiful stadium, and our games would be packed every weekend. I'm pretty sure people have my signature on softballs and they don't even know. Because we would just sign so many autographs all of the time. "

" For me, it's always been about continually challenging myself and continually figuring out how to go down the hill faster. "

" I am powered by the defeat in Sochi, as I am by all my defeats. "

Elana Meyers

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" If I'm honest, the thing I remember the most was the team mascot, Freddie the Falcon. I really remember there was a McDonald's nearby, and I remember eating a cheeseburger in the playground when the Falcon appeared. I'm not sure my dad appreciates that being my favorite memory of him playing. "

" Bobsledding is an expensive sport. "

Elana Meyers

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" After the situation I had with my concussion in 2015, how long and lasting the effects were, I'm just more careful about it. "

Elana Meyers

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" I love who I am. But being a woman competing in a male-dominated sport and always trying to push the envelope as a female athlete, you get a lot of comparisons to men and things like that. "

" Growing up, most girls have this image of how they want their wedding to be and things like that. I had none of that except for the cake I wanted, and that's what I got. The cake was the first thing we ordered. "

" I really, really wanted to be an Olympian. My parents knew about this dream of mine, and they suggested I try my hand at bobsled. They'd seen it on TV at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002 and thought it would be a good sport for me. "

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" We train six days a week, and each day includes some type of running or strength workout. It's all about getting functionally stronger in the positions that matter for racing, which means balancing the strength between my quads and hamstrings. "

" You get this feeling in bobsled, like a combination of excitement, anxiety, and pure nervousness, and you get that combination only very few times. "

" I'm E Money because I'm money when it counts. Not sure exactly where or when it started, but I was called it in softball, too. "

" I converted from softball. We've got volleyball, we've got track and field. Athletes come from anywhere and then convert into bobsled. "

" I've been in plenty of crashes! Some are not too bad - resulting in ice burn. Others are pretty rough, and sometimes - rarely, but sometimes - people do get seriously injured. It's a risk we all know of and accept. If you bobsled, you're going to crash - guaranteed. "

" I grew up playing softball, and at the age of nine, I decided I was going to be an Olympian. I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian. "

" My father's NFL dreams never really felt like motivation to me, but it was something to aspire to. He was such a great athlete, the least I could do is try and use my athletic talent to represent my country in a different way. He represented as a Marine. Maybe I could do something to represent as an athlete. "

" I love this sport, and I want people to have the opportunities that I have. I want the kid in the inner city to know that she can be a bobsledder one day, and I want the kid in the middle of Africa to know that she can be a bobsledder one day. So the more that we can go out there and grow the sport, the better. "

" I've encountered a lot of biases as a woman. "

" The more eyeballs there are on the sport, it will get more diverse. "

" I was a shortstop in softball, and a lot of times I had collisions with base runners coming in, so I definitely have scars. "

" I went to college, George Washington University, and played softball there. I also played professionally but with the real goal of being an Olympian and making the Olympic team. "

" Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that? "