I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I was.

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I was.

If you have done something once, you can do it again or you can do it better. The beauty is the pursuit of the limit, not the limit itself. At least that's what I hope people realize.

You can't really explain competing in Olympic event to someone. You can say, "Oh, that was really tough." And that literally means nothing to someone. If you can give some sort of comparison, because that's really all track and field is about any way....Usain Bolt runs a time and you get to see what everybody else's time is. It would just be interesting to compare Olympians to somebody who doesn't train their whole life.

Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive.

To do the best that I possibly could in my world makes me pretty happy.