When you fully focus in the match, you don't think too much about the atmosphere and the climate. Even if the temperature goes up, we will both sweat the same.
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I don't play to sweat, I play to win.
When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.
I experienced the heat when I was playing for Madrid. If we went to places like Sevilla early on in the season it was unbearable. Usually you can feel it on pre-season tours in places like Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta. The humidity levels are unreal, but this is different, the first game of the World Cup.
Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.
I am just focusing on one match at a time.
I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.
If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
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