I'm Always Challenged By Someone.

Winning Is Great, But Being Able To Finish My Last Olympic Games On American Soil Was Very Important. Even Though I Was Injured, I Didn't Let My Psyche Get The Best Of Me And Cause Me To Doubt Myself, So I Was Willing To Pull Every Muscle In My Body In '96 In Order To Get The Job Done And I Came Away With The Bronze Medal.

I Don't Have To Be Enemies With Someone To Be Competitors With Them.

When I Was In Elementary School, We Weren't Allowed To Do Sports Other Than Cheerleading. By Junior High, They Let Us Play, But We Had To Come Back After 6:30 P.m. To Practice Because There Was Only One Gymnasium And The Boys Used It First.

The Greatest Finish Line For Me Was Finishing College - It Was A Pact I Made With My Mother, During A Time When She Fell Ill. That Happened During My Freshman Year, And Unfortunately She Never Saw Me Compete In The Olympics. But She Really Wanted Me To Finish College, Because She Never Finished Junior High.

I Don't Think Being An Athlete Is Unfeminine. I Think Of It As A Kind Of Grace.