Kelley O'Hara Quotes

Chocolate milk has everything I need in a drink: the carbs, the protein, and the electrolytes. It's even backed by science, showing how you're able to recover. I can speak from experience, this is what I drink.

Everyone knows I drink a lot of Diet Coke, so...I drink chocolate milk after races as my recovery drink, and you won't ever find me without a peanut butter sandwich in my bag at races or without a jar of peanut butter when I am heading to Europe.

Food really is fuel - and hydration as well - but for athletic activity, you really got to take it seriously, or else it can negatively impact your performance.

Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.

Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.

That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.

On the course, I sometimes eat a little sandwich or a slow-release energy bar - one on the front nine and one on the back nine. You're out there five hours, so you have to keep eating. You're going to burn at least 1,000 calories. I'll try to take in about 400-600 calories during a round and drink water.

I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

An athlete's diet is a complicated thing.

I was a not-big-enough, not-fast-enough football player who wanted a little bit of an edge on the field. I figured my own sweat, if I could get that off my body, and more importantly, the weight that stood behind it, that would help.

Usually, about 2 hours before a game, I stuff in a nice peanut butter and jelly with chocolate milk.

In order for me to perform the best I can out on the field, I have to fuel my body with the proper nutrients to be able to do all the running. I'm running four or five miles every game, so it's a lot. Even at halftime, I take electrolytes and have half a peanut-butter-and-jelly or whatever is sitting there just to keep my engine running.

As a professional athlete, part of my job is to make sure I'm consuming high quality nutrients.

I ran a 100-mile marathon, and I was powered by coconut water.

A day or two before games, it's all carb overload: pasta, rice, potatoes, stuff like that. And, straight after the game, it's important to get as much carbohydrate on as possible. Refuel your body and get as much back in as you can. As it tails off a day or two later you, ease off on the carbs and go to more protein, vegetables, and salads.

Well, back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade - that's all that we knew.

Washington State was a tough recruiting spot.

I didn't know what it meant or what it took to be healthy and be prepared for 82-plus games... Injuries come with sports. I know that. But you can be prepared, get your body as prepared as it can be through practice and weights.

I've been able to come back at a high level which is something I'm happy about, not just stand on the pitch but able to perform as well.

Recovery after hard work is key for any athlete.

As a professional athlete you have to be technical with what you eat. You have to make sure your intakes are on point every day.

I never cheated on nutrition, I always had a really good diet and I always supplemented well - that's a massive factor in any sport. Even in everyday life, if people are just going to the gym recreationally, they'll have targets in mind and if you're not supplementing correctly or concentrating on your diet, you're wasting your time.

Coming out of high school, however, I wasn't a decorated recruit. As a result, I found myself one month from signing day with only two scholarship offers and they were from the Mid-American Conference.

College coaches, you know how they are - they want you to go 1,000 percent every second of the day.

I think it wouldn't be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.