Anxiety Quote by Elana Meyers

“You get this feeling in bobsled, like a combination of excitement, anxiety, and pure nervousness, and you get that combination only very few times.” quote by Elana Meyers — Download Open image

“You get this feeling in bobsled, like a combination of excitement, anxiety, and pure nervousness, and you get that combination only very few times.”

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Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive one. And there are really only two places in the country where you can bobsled - Park City, Utah, and Lake Placid, New York.

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I grew up playing softball, and at the age of nine, I decided I was going to be an Olympian. I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care.…

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I like to compare the two to a quarterback and a lineman. Being a brakeman is very physical and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters. Your position is won or lost by the hundredths of seconds you are faster than another individual. It's like the lineman who is there mostly…

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The first run in a four-man sled was one of the most nerve-wracking I've had in my life.

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The Lord calls us to love everybody.

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Making the transition from softball to bobsleigh was difficult, but my family and friends believed in me when no one else would.

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I don't put limits on anybody.

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It's important that the Olympics are motivating to young people and inspiring to all, and the only way to do that is to ensure…

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As Olympic athletes, we have a responsibility to be positive role models to today's youth.

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Oh my gosh, cheat meals I could go on and on about.

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I love this sport, and I want people to have the opportunities that I have. I want the kid in the inner city to know that she can be a bobsledder one day, and I want the kid in the middle of Africa to know that she can be a bobsledder one day. So the more that we can go…

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