Summer Sanders Quotes

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• I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do

  Summer Sanders

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.

  Summer Sanders

  Motivational, Pain, Work

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• The things you learn from sports - setting goals, being part of a team, confidence - that's invaluable. It's not about trophies and ribbons. It's about being on time for practice, accepting challenges and being fearful of the elements.

  Summer Sanders

  Sports, Team, Practice

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• At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

  Summer Sanders

  Hurt, May, Marathon

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• If you're not mentally tough,
  If nerves undo you instead of focus you,
  If you don't have the inner arrogance
  That you absolutely have what it takes to win,
  If you don't see, in your mind's eye,
  A picture of yourself winning - then you won't win;
  And not because you can't.

  Summer Sanders

  Eye, Winning, Focus

  Summer Sanders (1999). “Champions are Raised, Not Born: How My Parents Made Me a Success”

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• The first mile is mental. The rest are all heart.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Heart, Firsts

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• I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

  Summer Sanders

  Dad, Swimming, Thinking

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• It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're often racing against time. You're frequently running everything through your mind. You're always competing against preconceived ideas. It's not really the person next to you that you worry about.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Race, Ideas

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• I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

  Summer Sanders

  Years, Water, Swim

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• I slice up a ton of cucumbers, celery, carrots and red and yellow peppers. Keep them in your fridge so you always have something handy to curb your snack attack.

  Summer Sanders

  Snacks, Yellow, Cucumbers

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• Preparing mentally takes more out of you than the physical aspect of it.

  Summer Sanders

  Planning, Aspect, Preparing

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• Indoor pools just don't seem as inviting to me.

  Summer Sanders

  Pool, Inviting, Seems

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• When people say, 'Hey, wanna come to our house for dinner?' I say, 'Yeah, what should I bring?' They say, 'How about the dessert?' I just don't skimp on the dessert. I make it the yummy way it should be made, and then I just don't eat the whole pan.

  Summer Sanders

  Yummy, People, House

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• I love to run, but training can be hard, especially with a family and a crazy travel schedule. I often do sprints with my kids, where they bike and I run along side them so we can 'race' each other for a quarter-mile or shorter repeats.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Crazy, Kids

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• I was a die-hard, obsessed fan of Michael Jordan. I'd take his posters with me to away meets, I'd walk out on the deck in my Air Jordans before I swam, I'd write 23 on my cap. I'm just a huge Jordan fan.

  Summer Sanders

  Writing, Air, Fans

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• I'm really conscious of the amount of food I eat, but I don't deny myself anything. For example, I have a really big sweet tooth. At the end of the night, if I'm craving ice cream, I might not have the bowl that I would have when I was a kid, but I'll put a couple of scoops in a coffee mug, and I'll eat it slowly, and I enjoy every moment of it.

  Summer Sanders

  Sweet, Couple, Coffee

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• Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.

  Summer Sanders

  Couple, Kids, Swim

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• Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.

  Summer Sanders

  Kids, Swimming, Goal

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• At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.

  Summer Sanders

  Summer, Team, Sugar

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• As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?'

  Summer Sanders

  Want, Needs, Harm

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• Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men.

  Summer Sanders

  Men, Interesting, Tennis

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• I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.

  Summer Sanders

  Teaching, Fall, Kids

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• I have so much to learn when it comes to running. I just don't ever want it to feel like a chore. When I choose to sign up for a race or go out for a run, it's to make myself feel good, and I almost always do.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Race, Feel Good

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• That's what I love about running - I feel like we all celebrate each other. Even if you're racing somebody at the finish, it's like you're in it together.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Racing, Together

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• When I was training for the Olympics, I didn't eat the way I should have. I missed out on much-needed protein and opted for every easy carb.

  Summer Sanders

  Should Have, Training, Olympics

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