When you're gone I can go running though the house screaming and no one will ever hear me.

When you're gone I can go running though the house screaming and no one will ever hear me.

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success

It is clearly not the journey for everyone. People succeed in as many ways as there are people. Some can be completely fulfilled with destinations that are much closer to home and more comfortable. But if you long to keep going, then I hope you are able to follow my lead to the places I have gone. To within a whisper of your own personal perfection. To places that are sweeter because you worked so hard to arrive there. To places at the very edge of your dreams.

There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.

Be who you are in every situation.