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For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

I explain to athletes, you're supposed to be a well-oiled machine. You're supposed to be in better shape than the people watching you. You're supposed to be an unbelievable specimen of a human being. You have to treat your body different while you're performing.

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.

The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

Being an athlete, you try to get protein.

In a sportsperson's life, pressure is always there; you have to learn to deal with it.

As athletes, our job is to train and compete.