Summer Sanders Quotes

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

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  Motivación, Deporte, Atleta

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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.

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  Motivational, Pain, Work

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• Las cosas que se aprenden en el deporte (a fijarse objetivos, a formar parte de un equipo, a tener confianza en uno mismo) tienen un valor incalculable. No se trata de trofeos y cintas. Se trata de llegar a tiempo a los entrenamientos, aceptar los retos y tener miedo a los elementos.

  Verano 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.

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  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.

  Verano 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.

  Verano 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.

  Verano Sanders

  Dad, Swimming, Thinking

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• En realidad no se trata de la competición. El mayor reto en una carrera eres tú mismo. A menudo compites contra el tiempo. A menudo lo estás pensando todo. Siempre compites contra ideas preconcebidas. En realidad, no es la persona que tienes al lado la que te preocupa.

  Verano 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.

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  Years, Water, Swim

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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%?'

  Verano Sanders

  Want, Needs, Harm

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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.

  Verano Sanders

  Snacks, Yellow, Cucumbers

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

  Verano Sanders

  Planning, Aspect, Preparing

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• You can't go wrong with some nuts. The key word is 'some.' Eat them one at a time, not by the handful.

  Verano Sanders

  Keys, Nuts, Handful

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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.

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  Yummy, People, House

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

  Verano Sanders

  Pool, Inviting, Seems

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• Yo era un fan acérrimo y obsesionado de Michael Jordan. Me llevaba sus pósters a los partidos fuera de casa, salía a la terraza con mis Air Jordan antes de nadar, escribía 23 en mi gorra. Soy un gran fan de Jordan.

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  Writing, Air, Fans

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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.

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  Running, Crazy, Kids

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• Boston is the cream of the crop of the marathon world. It has such history that you feel such honor just being a part of it. All the other races have pacers to get you to a Boston qualifying time.

  Verano Sanders

  Race, Boston, Honor

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• The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.

  Verano Sanders

  Sleep, Alarms, Midnight

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• I don't care how much you're working out; when you go to put on that bikini, you're like, 'Oh no!'

  Verano Sanders

  Work Out, Care, Bikinis

  "Summer Sanders Talks Staying Fit After the Olympics". Interview with Alanna Nuñez, www.shape.com.

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• I've been barefoot most of my life: either flip flops or barefoot on the pool deck. Although you'd think that would make me a good candidate for barefoot running, that doesn't work with me.

  Verano Sanders

  Running, Thinking, Flip

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• I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They've seen me come home from so many runs and asked, 'What's on your skin? How did you get it?' And I tell them, 'It's from exercise!' So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, 'Look, Mom. I'm sweating! I just worked out!'

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  Mom, Running, Home

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• Thinking about your training should put a smile on your face. As cliche as it sounds, you are worth all the time and energy you've put in. Unleash your emotions with a cheer, or even a signature roar, after a tough workout.

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  Workout, Cheer, Thinking About You

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• Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did.

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  Athlete, Cutting, Thinking

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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.

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  Sweet, Couple, Coffee

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