Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

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.

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.

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

It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.