Sanya Richards-Ross
Sanya Richards-Ross
Sanya Richards-Rossis a Jamaican-American track and field athlete who competes internationally for the United States. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won gold in the 400 metres after finishing third at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Richards-Ross has also won Olympic gold in the 4×400 meters relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics, and the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was the best 400m runner in the world for a decade, ranking No. 1 in the world from 2005-2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth26 February 1985
CountryUnited States of America
Sanya Richards-Ross quotes about
I feel as healthy as I've ever felt.
Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.
My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream.
A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.
My favorite healthy foods are Jamaican chicken soup, Jamaican chicken stew peas, Jamaican brown stew chicken, plantains and banana chips.
No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory.
Focus on the victory instead of on everything that could go wrong.
It's about staying ahead of what happened yesterday. When you just in your mind think...nothing's going to stop me. I don't care how I felt yesterday. I'm gonna go out today and do what I know I can do. If you can just tell yourself...no I'm stronger than this, no I'm better than this, no I'm faster than this, no I'm tougher than this. I think you can make it through situations that your never thought possible.
Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle!
Sometimes I say the medication is even tougher than the illness.
For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous.