I grew up walking around naked in my house. My mom was like that, and my sisters.
It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
You push the limits and you find out where the limits are.
I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
When Im not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that Im not allowed to do that.
I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.
I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
It's annoying when people do that so-called comedians impression of me when it's stupid nonsense.
You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.