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A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It's short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to accept that.

I don't have one specific person that I think is the most athletic person.

I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold.

They see themselves as athletes and only athletes.