Liu Xiang Quotes

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.

I just kind of try to go out and focus on what I've got to do to get myself better.

Coming out of 2015, I just realized it's OK not to look perfect. It's OK to make sure that your players remain in that bubble, stay focused and true to who we are, and keep the belief internally.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

I was so happy to go to prom so I could have a mental break because I've been working so hard. It felt so good to feel normal for once, and then the next day, I was in the gym again.

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.

I'm gonna have to develop myself. I'm just going to do the best that I can do.

I look back at myself, this innocent person, and I think, 'Gosh, she's okay.' I handled a lot, and I'm still here.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

I'm living on this positive mind frame where I'm only attracting positive things. I'm controlling my energy, I'm eating right, I'm meditating, I'm in the gym, I'm doing all this stuff I'm supposed to be doing. I'm past that young, immature way of thinking. I just want to be great.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

I'm a hard worker, very driven, and have never expected anything to come easily. My yoga, a great rejuvenator, helped me to live down my image - this sex symbol thing. It helps me connect with myself.

After my accident, I never worried about how I looked.

My family and friends and career are very important to me, but running allows me to be a better friend, a better family member, and makes me better at my career.

I think every day you wake up, and you do the best you can do that day.

I'm taking each day one day at a time, and building up my strength and endurance. It's crazy because it takes no time at all to lose everything you have and then so much time to gain it back.

I'm going to focus on myself and continue to get myself better because I have plenty of things I need to work on.

Working on problems and self-examination is a sign of strength.

When I read or study, I don't do it for the degree - if I fail, it doesn't matter, but it just takes me out of this world where you're the centre of attention all the time. You just become a normal bloke when you're setting yourself those kinds of targets.

Whenever comparisons get too crazy I just think about my goals, and what I want from myself. I don't look at any references.

I like pushing myself.

I know what I need to work on, and I know what I need to prove and to show, and that's all that matters.

I love to push myself.

When I'm not worrying about what other people want, that's when I do the best work.