"I was standing there crying after I came up short. And that's when I decided I would win a gold medal in the next Olympics. Then I thought, 'Why not go to two Olympics and win four gold medals?'"
"I feel so privileged to get to do this."
"Consider that some athletes have never had a conversation in their lives that didn't have to do with swimming or diving or running or jumping. They're interested only in their muscles, their times, their scores. Lots of people can tell you how high to jump, how fast to run, how deep to dive. But nobody tells you that you have to fit into that larger world, a world you pretty much ignored or took to be unimportant."
"To become the best in the world at what you do requires the kind of tunnel vision of a stalking beast."
