Elana Meyers Quotes

I train with track athletes, which is weird for bobsledders. I love training with track athletes because they help me work on my speed, and they give me something to cheer for during the Summer Olympics.

I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.

The usual practice just isn't enough. I want more edge over my opponents. Cross-training is so important. I can improve myself and have a lower impact on my body.

Colorado Springs is a very good place to train ahead of the Olympics. We get to compete with different partners, learn different movements, we also get to improve upon our speed, which is very essential.

I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete.

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.

I box a lot, I spin and I surf. I try to mix it up. I obviously have to be in shape 24 hours and the gym can be super monotonous, so I just get outside and try to make it fun so my body doesn't get bored.

For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.

Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner.

If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.

I do a lot of a cross training.

I have MMA strengths, but I need to build on my weaknesses.

I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.

When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'

I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.

When I came to the high-performance arena, I was kind of a one-off in a lot of ways. I was as much an iron man as much as I was a cricketer. Having surfed, fished, hunted, that was just a natural thing.

I was really just too small for football.

You probably choose x-country because you were too small to play football.

A guy like Usain Bolt would be sick behind a bobsled.

I was super sporty in high school. I played tennis, field hockey, and lacrosse.

I have to improve on my speed endurance, and I am working on it.

I played everything. I played volleyball, did track, cross-country, but basketball was my main sport, my main focus.

I looked around and saw my competitors: they're all doing these quads, and at the same time, they're a head shorter than me, they're 10 years younger than me, and they're the size of one of my legs.

I might wake up in the morning and go out for a six- to eight-mile run, and then in the afternoon, I might swim two or three kilometres. The next day, I'll mix it up and do a military circuit. I don't stick to a set programme.