A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.
It's important not to make the gold medal bigger than it is.
I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.
If you have done something once, you can do it again or you can do it better. The beauty is the pursuit of the limit, not the limit itself. At least that's what I hope people realize.
The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.
Last year I was the favorite going into the world champs in Beijing, but I felt like I had to do something phenomenal in order to win. Instead of just having fun and competing, it became "I want to win so bad. " But the person who wants it the most doesn't win. It's the person who executes. I still look back on that 200-meter race and say what the hell happened? I wasn't hurt, I wasn't sick, the conditions were perfect, and I ran like total crap.
To do the best that I possibly could in my world makes me pretty happy.
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.
I wear a lot of things for fun. Sometimes Ill wear one item that is deliberately stupid because that will make the outfit cool.
I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.