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When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.

To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.

I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.

I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity.

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry.

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.