Olympic Athletes Have To Find

It Is Not Up To Me Whether I Win Or Lose. Ultimately, This Might Not Be My Day. And It Is That Philosophy Towards Sports, Something That I Really Truly Live By. I Am Emotional. I Want To Win. I Am Hungry. I Am A Competitor. I Have That Fire. But Deep Down, I Truly Enjoy The Art Of Competing So Much More Than The Result.

I Rolled The Second Car That I Ever Owned, A Toyota 4 Runner. This Was Winter In Colorado, Two Weeks Before The 2002 Olympic Trials. I Was Driving In The Outside Lane, And My Rear Tire Caught Some Black Ice, And We Totally Turned Sideways To The Point Where We Were Heading Right Toward The Median.

I Think In General, People Look At All Olympic Athletes, Look At All Superstar Athletes, And They Say, "okay, This Guy Doesn't Have Any Insecurities." They're Almost Like These Icons Who - I Don't Know How To Say It, But Like They Can't Make Mistakes. But The Reality Is, And I'll Tell You This Firsthand, A Lot Of Great Athletes Have A Lot Of Insecurities, And They Have A Really Hard Time Dealing With A Lot Of So-called Losing Or However You Want To Classify It.

It Starts With Your Diet And Then To Your Exercise... You Have To Make The Right Decisions As A Consumer And Learn About Carbs And Proteins As Well As Watching Your Portion Control, And From There You Have To Stay Active As Much As Possible.

When There's Somebody Racing Side-by-side, When Somebody's Right Next To Me And They're Pushing And We're Both Tired, We're Both Fatigued, I Want To Be Able To Beat Them Mentally.