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I work hard to improve myself...

I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

A good traveller is one who k...

A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

Your problems pale in compari...

Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

How could you look more stupi...

How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

It is clearly not the journey...

It is clearly not the journey for everyone. People succeed in as many ways as there are people. Some can be completely fulfilled with destinations that are much closer to home and more comfortable. But if you long to keep going, then I hope you are able to follow my lead to the places I have gone. To within a whisper of your own personal perfection. To places that are sweeter because you worked so hard to arrive there. To places at the very edge of your dreams.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

As an athlete, I'd average fo...

As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

Life is often compared to a m...

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

All my life I believed I beca...

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations. Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

All my life I believed I beca...

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

I had already been into my pr...

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

You owe it to yourself to fin...

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

I've had to learn that not ev...

I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

Opting for gold shoes could h...

Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

Rivalries don't necessarily m...

Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

You can't control what the ot...

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

They don't give you gold meda...

They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

They think because I'm small,...

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

The mind is absolutely instru...

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

One of the main techniques I ...

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

I don't always do a lot of pr...

I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.

Michael Johnson 47 quotes

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