Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

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.

I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.

My life was very Japanese.

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.

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.