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If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it; even the best players in the world never master the game.

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

I feel like every woman, and actually any guy who hasn't played that many sports, you secretly wonder, like, 'Would I be a pro athlete?'

I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride and hope to a lot of young blacks.

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.

I find it is a challenge being a student athlete, but I am the kind of individual that loves challenges. I see this as my job rather than a chore so it makes it easier to get through the day. Regular students don’t spend 4 hours at the track, 2 in the training room and they especially don't have to watch everything they eat. I enjoy what I do immensely and take the good with the bad.

If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.

I fought, I fought harder . . . but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.

I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.

I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans.

If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.

If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.

If the athlete is fair with the press, he deserves fairness back.

If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.

If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time to hang ourselves. Every swing is a 'thought shot'. So instead of the best athlete, you end up with the best thinker as the winner.

If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle.

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.

If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.

If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.

If you don’t have fun, it’s hard to do your best. It’s not going to be enjoyable.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.

If you have a body, you are an athlete!

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

If you're an athlete, you might work your entire life, and you win the Super Bowl once, if you're lucky. And I feel like in the arts and entertainment we win the Super Bowl all the time.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

If you're going to play a champion athlete, people expect you to look a certain way, and you also have to have the stamina to be able to continue to perform.

If you're tweeting - and this is what I tell the young athletes who come to me about these situations, because I've been through them and I've seen both sides of it - if you're tweeting just because everyone else is tweeting and you're not uncomfortable, if it doesn't feel like a sacrifice - like when I wore that T-shirt it was a sacrifice.

If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.