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

~Michael Johnson

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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

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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.

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I always wanted to be a sprinter.

~Michael Johnson

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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.

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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.

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There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.

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The only one who can beat me is me.

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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.

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: September 13th, 1967

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