I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The moments that I feel a huge sense of accomplishment are actually the smaller moments, not really the bigger ones, the televised ones.
The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.
The success of 'The Celebration' was like a hand grenade exploding in my face. It suddenly gave me so many opportunities to explore things I had never done before.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.
That winning feeling, it's great.
I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.
Dedicating myself to actually following through was my single biggest achievement.
The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it.