I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around

Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

You have to have the right mind-set.

There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.