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" The only one who can beat me is me. "
Michael Johnson
Beat
Me
Only
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" There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training. "
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Just
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Event
" 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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Lunch
Work
People
" 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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Think
Go
Want
" 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. "
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Cocky
Shoes
" 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. "
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Me
My Life
Think
" 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. "
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Hard Work
Work
Life
" 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
Career
Professional
Pressure
" Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us. "
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Believe
I Believe
Slavery
" 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
Losing
Winning
Mind
" 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. "
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You
Athlete
Control
" 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
Feeling
Tell
Strong
" I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission. "
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Work Hard
Father
Husband
" I always wanted to be a sprinter. "
Michael Johnson
Always
Wanted
Sprinter
" They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody. "
Michael Johnson
Gold
Medals
Give
" 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
Me
Best
Everyone
" 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
Myself
Race
Started
" As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity. "
Michael Johnson
Never
Celebrity
Comfortable