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“If somebody wants me to do something I've never done, I can do it more easily because of all of the years of sports I've played.”
“Every day, we as athletes face several challenges during the training process, and it is imperative that we approach each situation carefully and with continued precision.”
“I actually like indoor track and field more than outdoor.”
“Track and field is tougher physically, but golf is tougher mentally.”
“I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.”
“The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, 'You know, that was a good movie.'”
“I've got to do Gotzis at least once.”
“I don't have one specific person that I think is the most athletic person.”
“I wouldn't have gone to a Division I school if I didn't have scholarship help. We couldn't afford it.”
“Even if you see a great performance, it's not always great getting there. There are injuries... Intrinsically or unconsciously, people understand that - people see those performances, and they know there are stories behind that.”
“The only thing I want to think about the moments before a race is competing. I don't want the little things to distract me.”
“I think what's at risk is kids losing touch with being a kid. Being a kid is being defined differently than it was when you didn't have all this stuff you could put in front of your face.”
“Now that I'm older, I see the benefits of having free time to release energy.”
“I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.”
“The questions to ask are, why was the decathlon so popular before, and what happened to make it fade? I notice a lot of things in general tend to follow that up-and-down trend.”
“That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.”
“The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.”
“I would say 90 percent of the stuff we do is technical anyway. If you look at a two-hour training day, 12 minutes are probably spent running or gaining fitness.”
“If I won a second Olympic title, maybe I would be tempted to go after a third.”
“The first sport I played was baseball. I remember being on the Little League team and someone pitching the ball to me for the first time. I was ready to no longer hit the ball off the tee, and an adult pitched it to me underhand.”