Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

We talk to our players all the time, 'Just control what you can control.' It's no different in life.

You go year to year and you can only control what you can control.

I was very disciplined growing up. If I didn't want to run hills, I ran hills; if I didn't want to jog around the block, I jogged around the block.

You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It's really just a lack of focus and discipline.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self-determination. It will take you very far.

I always tell myself to bat the full day, and if there is a ball to be hit, just hit it.

I train hard every day, I don't know what the word 'impossible' means.

I would like to fight as hard as I possibly can in each and every game and win or lose, leave it at that, and move forward. I know in my heart that that is the mindset I need to be a successful and happy athlete.

I think the one thing about Kawhi is he literally stays level-headed all the time, he never gives up, he never gets down.

As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

I've learned that if I can convince myself to just keep putting one foot in front of the other, then I can run as far as I want to.

It's just determination, working hard, and keeping my feet on the ground in training and keep on proving people wrong.

I try to push myself a little every day. For me, it's doing 10 more seconds of whatever I'm working on. So if I'm on the treadmill sprinting my butt off or doing a grueling core workout, I think to myself, 'You can do 10 more seconds, and you'll be that much mentally stronger.' After a while, those 10 seconds add up!

I can only control what I do when I go compete.

Being disciplined and determined are my fitness mantra.

Everybody is calling me crazy because I want to do the Ironman. I'm not doing it to win it. I'm doing it to finish it. I'm racing myself, not a particular field or group of people.

I just put all my energy into me and focusing on what I'm going to do, and I'll go in there and do that right through the end of the fight until I get the job done.