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As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.

I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It's short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to accept that.

As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

As athletes, our job is to train and compete.