“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within you…” — Jesse Owens

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.