I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was training and I wanted to be in the Olympics. I thought I was going to be able to win a gold medal, and my mind was pretty much set on 'this is what I want to do'.
Fantastic, I am very happy to be the fastest 800 metres runner in the world.
A lot of sprinters aren't football players. I'm a football player. That's the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I'm totally different than any other track guy.
When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.
I grew up in a small town outside Philadelphia and went to the local high school, where I ran track all four years.
It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
I don't know much about the history of track and field, but I know Gail Devers.
Who am I just to give up on track? This is something I've dreamed about since I was 9 years old, being an Olympic champion.
I was just a normal athlete. My mother tried to spark something in me. She was an athlete in high school before she got pregnant with my older brother. She was 16, and that was it for her when it came to track and her education.
So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.
I have the track label on me. I'm the track guy. So I have to go above and beyond the expectations of what other people will limit their bodies to.
