You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you look at all aspects of all sports, everything comes down to basics and fundamentals.
This sport gives you the highest highs and the lowest lows.
Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.
You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.
No other athlete in any sport has ever had to go through what I have to.
I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.
To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.
In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
In sport, you just have to take what you can get.