The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.
It's difficult when you don't take part in team training and have to train alone.
I don't like to run, train, in groups. But racing, it's the groups that are most inspiring to me. I love racing with 52,000 people. I don't like training with any more than one person. Ever.
It's easy to continue to go out to the field, even if I'm by myself or running and lifting and doing what I need to do - it's actually easy because I love what I do.
Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising.
Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.
I grew up as an only child, so I like being by myself. So I train predominantly - 98 percent of the time - by myself.
I shoot all kinds of shots. I just don't stay on the block and do layups and dunks when I'm in the gym by myself.
Most of my workouts happen by myself because I travel so much.
It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
No other teammates can help you when you're on the ice by yourself against the clock. So I decided that if I'm going to race on my own, I'm going to train on my own.
