You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work.

The only thing you can never change is your values.

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.

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