Apolo Ohno Quotes

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• One things guys have to remember is consistency... You can't make up for three years of eating poorly in just one workout.

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  Workout, Years, Guy

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• My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.

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  Dad, Order, Sky

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• Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.

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  Sports, Regret, Cancer

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• Be YOU. Don't be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud... rock it loud.

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  Positive, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

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• It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.

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  Sports, Art, Philosophy

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• We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.

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  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Successful

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• If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.

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  Inspirational Life, Sacrifice, Giving

  Apolo Ohno (2011). “Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• Did you do every single thing you could today, to be your best?

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  Today, Be Your Best

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• I think we should all be pursuing something of zero regrets, and how do we become greater than we were yesterday.

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  Zero, Regret, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If I have given my all and still do not win, I haven't lost. Others might remember winning or losing; I remember the journey.

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  Positivity, Winning, Journey

  Twitter post from Feb 18, 2010

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• An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

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  Years, Preparation, Three

  "Apolo Anton Ohno closes door on 2014 comeback". Interview with Kelly Whiteside, www.usatoday.com. April 24, 2013.

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• I've always wanted to play a role in inspiring people to be better, to live higher quality lives and to feel good about the way that they look and feel.

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  Play, People, Feel Good

  Interview withSheldon Baker, www.nutraceuticalsworld.com. September 17, 2010.

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• I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.

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  Yellow, Clothes, Gold

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• When I'm done skating, I guarantee you that I will not look back and remember standing on the podium. I'm going to remember these days - being with the team. Training alone, in my basement. Training when everybody else is sleeping. Doing things that nobody else is doing. Digging down. Seeing what kind of character I truly have. I love that stuff.

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  Team, Character, Sleep

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• I think so many times we focus so much on just the end result when when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal. That was never really what it was all about.

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  Thinking, Goal, Focus

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Broadcasting is definitely in my cards for the future, and I'm determined to work hard at it - to perfect it and create my style and niche.

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  Hard Work, Perfect, Style

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• My dad's great. He's my biggest supporter. He's always told me that whatever I choose to do, I can do it. I just gotta put my mind to it.

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  Dad, Mind, I Can Do It

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• It's an individual sport, but collectively everybody shares the same motto that Ironman stands for: anything is possible.

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  Sports, Motto, Individual

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• I am a believer in nutrient timing and supplementation, through 8Zone. I love eggs, apples, wild fish, leafy greens, brown rice, pasta, oatmeal, home grown Washington Potatoes, and cooking with coconut and olive oils.

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  Home, Eggs, Oil

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• Champions all get kicked when they're down.

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  Champion

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• I never had one day that I didn't want to be on the ice, because I always had an objective for that day. I had a rigorous plan and schedule in place that I had to adhere to. It was a step-by-step process of slowly but surely inching toward the Olympic Games and using every day as a series of goals to be accomplished.

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  Games, Ice, Goal

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• When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much the same. The one thing that's going to separate you from everybody else is how you deal with those pressures, how you stay relaxed.

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  Gun, Levels, Pressure

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 18, 2010.

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• Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

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  Jobs, Athlete, Done

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• Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.

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  Running, Littles, Speed

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• The older I get, the more and more I notice I'm like my father. It's funny, because when I was younger I tried to just back away from my father as much as I could, and some of the philosophies, some of the life lessons, some of the beliefs that he had within me are always constantly ongoing, and they're always prevalent in my life, whether it's trying to be every single thing that I can be in my sport or life or relationship or business, whatever avenue I'm pursuing.

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  Sports, Father, Philosophy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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