Matt Harvey Quotes

I'm good at separating my personal life from racing. When I'm at track, it's race time; when I'm away from it, other than the fact I'm training to be fit for it, there is nothing at home that makes me even want to think about racing. I just want to enjoy my life, and by the time the next race comes around, I'm ready and excited for it.

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.

I'm looking to get in the best shape possible for London and not worrying about rivals.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

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

I thought that basketball and soccer were hard. And then I went to track practice. It's just running and running and running. And my event was the 400 hurdles. I ended up qualifying for state. But looking back on it, track was hard.

I've definitely got better over the years at conserving my energy in pre-season - at knowing what to focus on and what to let go.

I came to Flatanger with a plan in my mind to bolt a really, really hard thing that would be beautiful and keep me motivated to try it for a long time, in some underdeveloped area.

Training camp for me is a day-by-day thing. It's a grind. If you lose focus on what you're trying to work on, you won't be there mentally, and it'll be tough physically.

Eighty-two games, it's a long season.

I know sometimes in the off-season I have to motivate myself to get on the ice because I know there's so long until the competitions begin again.

I wanted to challenge myself to reach my full potential as a player.

I'm always staying motivated because, as training camp goes on, practices become more intense, harder, and shorter. It's a mental thing, too, not only physical - you have to stay mentally sharp and stay focused on the task in front of you.

I can train harder and put myself through more punishing efforts now than I used to do, having done the Tour de France, and come off the road now.

Every training session you take part in, you have to work very hard and train hard because there is no other way to get where you want to be - it's not a secret and not a magic formula - just hard work and application.

I really believe if I put my mind in the right place, if I train very hard, if I have good support by my side, I can be the champion again and stay there for a long time.

By running the N.Y.C. Marathon in 2008, I became a runner and I think that's what works the best for me and keeps my body the way I like it to be.

Whenever you play football, you will always have something to prove.

I gave up tennis to study, but not before it had shown me how to focus and concentrate. It taught me self-discipline: I was playing four or five hours a day and doing five-mile runs. When I stopped, my energy had to be channelled into something else.

I've said it before, every day in the cage, I'm trying to be consistent and keep my load and keep my body right and my mind right.

For every athlete, Olympics is the target, but mine is a little different. I am focusing on improving my timing; that's what I think about.

The tennis calendar is incredibly long, so it's normal to go through ups and downs, and you want to keep the ups as long as possible and the downs as short as possible. You have to be realistic with what you're doing.

Fear of failure is a great thing. It pushes you past your comfort levels.

Obviously when you challenge yourself you learn a lot about yourself, and ultimately you're going to get better in whatever field.

I never prepare according to how I feel for a fight. I always prepare to be a better me.