Allyson Felix Quotes

I recognized from a young age that I wasn't a football player; I played football.

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running.

Let's face it: I am not a professional runner.

The great thing with Usain Bolt is he fell into great coaching, so his talent was exceptional from Day 1. You can coach technique and structure, but not talent.

I can't jump the highest. I'm obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

I wasn't a very athletic boy. I was once lapped in the long jump

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

I've been running like this since I was seven.

I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particularly good, so I didn't just carry on because I was good, but it just really appealed to me.

When I was growing up Harlequins were interested in signing me because I was very fast and strong at an early age, but I wasn't interested in rugby at the time.

I'm not the best athlete.

I played all sports when I was young. I was into wrestling, basketball, baseball, football, and I ran track. But wrestling was my main sport because there was no criterion height-wise.

A male athlete's peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.

I was a runner in Delhi's Army Public School. I started running when I was in class four and became the fastest sprinter in school and zone competitions by the time I reached class eight.

I was obviously never good enough to play at a top level, or even anywhere close to that, if I'm being honest. That's the reality.

I've trained since I started walking, I've played sports, I've competed. I've learned how to win, even if I haven't done it as much as I'd like.

I'm an athlete; my dad had made sure I played all the same sports as boys growing up, so I was always super competitive.

I've always been athletic - did the 100 metres and 1500 m at school, cross-country races - and did well in them.

I always said if I didn't focus on basketball, then it would have been football. I was pretty good and was asked to go to England trials.

I've always had coaching in my blood. My dad was a college coach at West Chester and Ursinus so I had a feeling all along that I would coach.

Of course, I know that I have some qualities. I think I can run a lot, that I'm physically well but if I have other qualities I will leave other people to speak about me.

I had a coach when I was getting recruited say maybe you should play basketball at a Division III level, because you're not good enough to play football in college.

Actually, I wanted to play baseball. Honestly, I just think with a kid developing, playing a lot of sports, it's just kind of whatever you're good at.