You can feel the vibes, feel the people pulling for you.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential.

When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.

So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of the things that you learn during the process of being educated. How to analyze, how to assess, how to equate, how to reason.

Many people think sports are totally physical, that you don't have to think, everything is done for you and you're catered to, I found that to be so far removed from the truth that it's almost a joke. The ones who become stars are the ones who have a head on their shoulders and know how to use it.