It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

My life was very Japanese.

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.

I think to actually be an Olympian to me means that you've trained most of your life, or you've dedicated most of your life or a big chunk of your life into doing something that you believe that you can accomplish.

We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.