Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it.
Too many athletes do not admit their weaknesses.
I don't have a goal. I don't limit myself to a goal.
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.
No other athlete in any sport has ever had to go through what I have to.
Really, I'm never much of a goal-setter. Whenever I've tried to make big, solid plans, they don't happen. I'm more into whatever the circumstances are that present themselves, making wise decisions around that.
Every athlete, I think, would like to play forever. They never want to acknowledge that they've lost a step or they can't quite do what they did before.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.