Linford Christie Quotes

I'm just a basketball player going out there and trying to get wins.

Without training, I'm nothing. If I'm not training, I'm done. Any athlete, they have to train and they have to practice to win games. For sure. One hundred percent. You have to be training.

I've always believed that training with great players makes you a better player.

I think every player enjoys praise and I have to work extremely hard on the training ground to bring my game together.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

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

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

You can never guarantee the wins but you can guarantee that you give it 100%. That way you can always look back and feel comfortable, as a player or a coach.

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

Top athletes are like warriors.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today.

My dad never really played basketball, but now he's my biggest critic. I come home, and he says: 'Why didn't you shoot there? Why didn't you drive?'

Brother Colm is one of the best coaches who's ever been here in Kenya. He's been, of course, my coach since I started running. He saw me in high school when I was still doing 400, and 200 meters. He decided for me to join his club and we'd been training for one month. That is when he saw me and he thought I could do a good 800.

I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time.

All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.

Back when I first came up with the Twins as a second baseman, Billy worked with me on my fielding, on playing the game, on being heads-up, hustling, always doing my best, not alibiing. And when he was the Twins' manager, I enjoyed playing for him.

I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles.

I learned a lot from the coaches I played for.

Speed is something I always worked on really hard.

From an early age, I tried to take in all the instructions of all the coaches I had.

I wouldn't have become the player I have without my father.

I am training 8-9 hours a day and will give my best shot for Rio.

Behind every great athlete is a masterful coach that inspires the athlete to evolve into the strongest performer they can become.