I've never really been the type to dress up like the other girls do. I'm more of a casual, relaxed kind of girl. More athletic.
Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.
I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.
As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.
I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively.
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.
Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.
I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday.
I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition.
I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
When I stopped looking at food as a reward or a celebration and began looking at food as energy to fuel my athletic ambitions, that really kind of changed the whole world for me. That was the real 'aha!' moment.
Dance never really goes away; it just reforms and reinvents, and it's become more athletic with new connection to fitness and sport. Dance used to have this exclusivity, but not any more.
I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded life.
I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very 'Glee.'
I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.
I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires t...
