Ian Millar Quotes

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

I think if I get the training spot on, the equipment perfect and I'm in the right state of mind, I can get a result there from no competitive action.

Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.

Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.

I look back, in an endearing way, on that time of my life when I was competing at the Olympics.

In spring training, I just try to spread everything out so I can be 100 percent before the season starts. I don't want to start feeling like I don't get it once the season starts. I want to be 100 percent on Opening Day.

I've been to three Olympics. I gave it my all.

It's always something that's played on my mind, being an Olympian, so hopefully we get there and do the job at the World Cup.

It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

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

I've had some experience in track and field in school, but I did have to train to be able to play Jesse Owens - to be a runner, to be an Olympian.

Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we're on the court.

I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

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.

The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it'll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.

I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold.

I think if I just do what I do every day, on the extraordinary Olympic stage, I could be a podium contender.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally too inexperienced to cope comfortably in the pressure cooker of an Olympic year.

Whenever I have played a game of cricket, whether it is under-16, under-19, or State level, my approach has been the same.

When you're in a sport like speed skating where the clock gives you the results, there is always a faster goal or a personal best to beat.

Club or national training is the same. We play as we train.