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When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.

I didn't want people to think of me as someone who wasn't impressed with a silver medal, because obviously that's a huge accomplishment, and I was so happy. It was more about me just being not impressed with falling at the Olympics in my last event.

Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.

Medals don't suit me. I'm not that kind of guy.

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.

My first gold medal, at my first Olympics, is kind of a surprise to me. I never thought I would be in this position, but I'm so blessed and honored to be on the medal stand.

I've dominated past competitions, but I've sweated blood and tears for every medal. I take nothing for granted, and I'm fully focused on doing my best.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.