Alistair Brownlee Quotes

I'm just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you're usually not going to get it.

When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

I think of the important things: how to prepare, how to practice, how to prepare to practice.

When I was a junior and an up-and-coming athlete, I don't think I looked to anyone for inspiration. I was so busy trying to improve myself and learning these new events and learning about the decathlon in general that I didn't really have time to focus on anyone else.

To be the best, you need to be the most well-trained and well-prepared athlete you can be. The pressure is going to be all around you. You just have to make sure that your body and mind is fine-tuned. Then you go out there and do it.

A master's is a lot more work than my first degree, but I'm an athlete who knows what she wants. I made up my mind, and I'm determined that this is what I'm going to do.

Coming into the offseason, when I'm training, when things get hard, I know there's guys that are across the country, training and trying to be the best in the country and trying to be the best in the world. So that just motivates me to just keep going and keep working.

You have to get yourself right for the Worlds. If you can't get yourself right for that you shouldn't be playing.

I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

You already have everything you need to be a long-distance athlete. It's mindset, not miles, that separates those who do from those who dream.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation.

I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.

I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

Athletes are extremists. When they're training, it's laser focus.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

In competition, when I start performance I try not to think about all the pressure from the fans. But, I got a lot of energy from them always. They make me more perfect.

I don't think about second or third place.

I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else.

I am always nervous before the start of a race. It helps me to say to myself to try my very best. That is my commitment. No matter how bad it gets, I will try my hardest.