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.

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.

Things are going pretty good.

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.