As of yesterday, I wasn't sure if I would skate it. I've been sick. |
For starters, it allowed me to find Wausau Insurance and Taco Bell. They allowed me to skate four more years. That was a huge way that it changed my life. |
He came on at the right time. He's on fire right now. He deserves a lot of credit for that mentally. |
He doesn't like to lose. And he was given a gift, a motor like the rest of us don't have. When we hit the wall, we hit the wall. We just lose function. But he just doesn't do that. |
He not only won, he blew everybody away. |
I haven't been to an event I wasn't competing in since I got here. But that's one race I'll be getting to. |
I think I've seen him a couple of times on the other side of the rink in the last week, week and a half. |
If (Davis) feels it's him against the world, it's him that pitted himself against the world. |
If he feels it's him against the rest of the world, then it's him who pitted himself against the world. |
If he thinks it's him against the rest of world, well, it's he who pitted himself against the rest of the world. |
If you want my opinion, I'd say no. I don't think he can do it. You're looking at a guy who's got very, very good chances in three races. |
It didn't change a lot of things. It didn't change friends or my relationship with my now-wife, or family. |
It was my first (Olympics). I was real excited about that. I skated real well the year before, but then the clap skates came out, so, I was anything but relaxed, because I knew I was a long shot, at best. Yet, a lot of people were expecting great things out of me, because they read about the season before. |
It's fun to watch guys like that. You can't do that just by showing up a couple days a week and being real recreational about it. You got to train, especially at that age. You've got to prepare and be around the rink a lot of hours. I give them a lot of credit. |
It's hard to argue with his decision not to do it. |