When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

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.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

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.

I call myself a chameleon.