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.

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.

My life was very Japanese.

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.

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.

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 necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.