Four key words--helped make my dreams come true. They are: dedication, balance, risk, and love.

The distance between a person's dream and their accomplishments can only be measured by their desire.

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

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.

Winning doesn't always mean being first.

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.

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would accomplish what I have in the sport