I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.
I ain't never seen no talking winning nothing. Been like that since I was little. I was raised like that.
I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.
The media has dubbed me as someone who can only get up for the big tournaments, and that is not who I want to be.
When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.
One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well.
Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.
In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.
I've always talked to the media. I'm pretty respectful to the media.
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