The Pressure Is Hard. You

It Was All Kind Of A Whirlwind At The Beginning. I Didn't Really Realize That I Had A Special Gift From God. It Was Probably Towards The End Of High School In My Senior Year When Things Really Started To Come Together And I Realized That I Had More Potential And That I Could Do This As A Career And That The Olympics Were A Possibility.

I Spend Around Two And Half Hours On The Track Every Day Running And Another 2 Hours In The Weight Room Lifting Weights With My Strength Coach.

If I Wasn't Active And Involved In Different Sports And Just Moving Around, I Wouldn't Have Even Known That I Had The Potential To Become An Olympian.

My Mom Always Has This Amazing Ability To Always See The Best In A Situation. In That Moment [when Finished 2nd In The 200 Meter Race In The 2008 Olympic Games] I Was Just Completely Devastated. I Mean, I Had Worked So Hard; That Was My Opportunity. And She Was Just Able To Turn It Around For Me. She Helped Me To Be Able To See The Other Side Of Things And That This Is Not The End For Me. She's Just An Amazing Supporter And An Encouraging Person And She Has A Unique Ability To Do That. And So Those Are The Kind Of Things She Said To Me In That Moment And Over The Next Four Years. When Things Get Tough, She's Always Been My Strength.

I Know That I Wasn't Bred To Be An Olympian. I Didn't Start Running Until High School, And I Just Stumbled Upon To.