I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

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

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

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

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

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.