Hima Das Quotes

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

I'm not feeling much pressure for the Olympics because I think I already have done many things in my career. I will try to enjoy my second Olympics.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep absolutely ready. That's an emotional thing, almost. I don't mean physically, although I play tennis. But you try to keep yourself ready.

As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.

Most pro athletes are super competitive, super clutch, and they don't want to lose at anything.

I don't think about medals. I just think of bettering my own time.

When I came into football, my whole identity was to be one of the best players in the world, if not the best player, and for me, that is what is driving me each and every day.

Competition keeps you young. It motivates you. It challenges your ego. Messi and Ronaldo have this with each other.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.

International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one's self and try to grow as a cricketer.

I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.

I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.

It's not good to focus on one person or two persons about being your rivals. The important thing is just to train hard and be ready for the competition and to prepare for the races so that in case of anything that comes out, you are able to handle it.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.

Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.

I pretty much knew that I was going to come in fourth, but then I said, 'I'm fourth at the Olympic Games. What are you talking about? Why is that disappointing?'

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.