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.

I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.

A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.

The only thing you can never change is your values.

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

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.