Michael Johnson Quotes - Page 2

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• I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves.

  Michael Johnson

  People, Doe, Way

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• They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

  Michael Johnson

  Motivational, Thinking, Track

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• I always wanted to be a sprinter.

  Michael Johnson

  Wanted, Sprinters

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• How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Stupid, Bronze Medal

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• You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Unorthodox

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• I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.

  Michael Johnson

  Strong, People, Feelings

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• You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Goal

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• When you're gone I can go running though the house screaming and no one will ever hear me.

  Michael Johnson

  Running, Honesty, House

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• All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

  Michael Johnson

  Determination, Athlete, Thinking

  "First Take debate: Michael Johnson's comments about sprinters' ability, 'slavery'". www.espn.com. July 5, 2012.

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• As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work.

  Michael Johnson

  Athlete, Average, Lunch

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• Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds.

  Michael Johnson

  Sports, Running, Mean

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• A bird, music and food -desert island items

  Michael Johnson

  Islands, Bird, Desert

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• On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, Winning

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• I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.

  Michael Johnson

  Husband, Father, Hard Work

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• As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

  Michael Johnson

  Athlete, Comfortable

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• I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

  Michael Johnson

  Years, Careers, Gold

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• Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

  Michael Johnson

  Believe, Athletic, Slavery

  "First Take debate: Michael Johnson's comments about sprinters' ability, 'slavery'". www.espn.com. July 5, 2012.

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