When You're Gone I Can Go Running

I Had Already Been Into My Professional Career For Six Years And Had Not Won An Individual Gold Medal At The Olympics. There Was A Tremendous Amount Of Pressure Going Into 1996 To Get It Done.

When You're Gone I Can Go Running Though The House Screaming And No One Will Ever Hear Me.

The Only Way To Deal With Loss - As A Horribly Unwelcome Guest That You Know Will Show Up Eventually. And So You Deny It And Reject It And Ignore It And Laugh In Its Face. You Toss It Out Into The Street And Push It Away And Fight It Off, And Only It Has Landed Square In Your Lap, Only Then Do You Deal With It.

You Can't Control What The Other Athlete Is Going To Do; You Can't Control Anything Except For Your Competition And How You Execute The Race Or How You Execute The Task.

It Is Clearly Not The Journey For Everyone. People Succeed In As Many Ways As There Are People. Some Can Be Completely Fulfilled With Destinations That Are Much Closer To Home And More Comfortable. But If You Long To Keep Going, Then I Hope You Are Able To Follow My Lead To The Places I Have Gone. To Within A Whisper Of Your Own Personal Perfection. To Places That Are Sweeter Because You Worked So Hard To Arrive There. To Places At The Very Edge Of Your Dreams.