I don't remember the first time I won. I remember the first time I lost, and it sucked. It was go-karts; I was, like, 6 years old.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have no idea why I won, man. I guess some people liked the music that I was doing. I'm just lucky. I was just doing my thing each week.
Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.
It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun.
The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn't know what I was doing. I just needed some time to get settled in on the tour.
I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.
The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.
I remember there was a time when people were saying I could never win again.
I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.
I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.