It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.
I don't want to be all power and muscle.
My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.
My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.
If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.
I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.
I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008.
I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
I mean, you can't make anything without making mistakes, is the truth, and I'm very grateful for those misses that I've had in my career at home, because you learn so much more from them than you ever do from the hits. You learn that you really have to work hard, which I wasn't really doing at that time. You sort of think 'I've cracked it, I'm doing it. 'And you start to think perhaps you're more of a dude than you really are.
Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?