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You must relate athletic experiences to life.

You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.

The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front.

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.

Athletics set the right sentiment for a clean and believable sport.

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.