I’ve been to the top, to eat filet mignon, to have sweets, traveling around the world, having everything at your fingertips, to being embarrassed just to walk around in society.
I allowed myself to get beat and I beat myself. That’s the worst feeling in the world.
I want to go out there and show the world I can stretch my legs even more and exhibit more talent.
Every year, I laid out a strategy of what I was going to do, and I was very successful. In 2003, I wanted to take the world by storm, and I did that indoors. In 2004, I wanted to run fast; I did that. In 2005, I wanted to be dominant, and I did that as well.
There are not going to be medals passed out to everybody in the world. It is going to be passed out to one person, the champion.
I first started in tech when one of my friends and I decided it was a good opportunity to start a company while we were in school because we had almost no opportunity cost. Our opportunity cost was playing ‘World of Warcraft’ and drinking beer. We thought it was a good time to try something.
I don’t have to be world coach of the year at some point, but I would like to be named one of the best coaches one day.
Today, I have an understanding of the world, and of the entertainment and media industries, of how people consume content.
Extrinsic motivations are like, ‘I wanna get rich, I wanna be famous.’… Even missionary ones like, ‘I wanna change the world with this idea.’… That’s an extrinsic motivation. And when things are hard, you’re going to be like, oh why am I doing this?
I needed a break from track, the media and the world. I wanted to just be me.
Unlike badminton playing major nations of the world, we never had a specialist doubles coach and so the discipline remained neglected.
I stopped playing mixed doubles and there is no result in mixed doubles. I was world number six. People who are talking about me and my performance and questioning my career and my achievements, where is the next mixed doubles pair, please show it to me. I would like to know.
Unfortunately, a significant portion of the world is still struggling with poverty and hunger and it will be impossible to reverse this trend without a huge mobilization of financial resources.
I wanted to normalize the whole fitness world – it can be really intimidating stepping into it.
When your whole world feels like it’s crumbling down, everything you thought you knew, it’s really to be rebuilt again but much stronger.
As I get older and mature and see the world, I think it’s really rewarding to have people take inspiration – I hate the ‘I’ word – but I think a lot of disabled people really thank me for putting disability out there in a positive way.
My little sister is bullied in school and I wanted to show her that… I was bullied by the world.
I worked at the zoo for three months, and I got to be very close with the 400 pound gorilla. And I was one of three people in the world that could touch him.
I’ve always loved musical theatre. It’s my favorite thing in the world to do.
We don’t have the same philosophy, but I don’t think it’s the worst thing in the world to have a nickname associated with Jose Mourinho.