You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

I call myself a chameleon.

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.

Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.