He just really latches on to close friendships and relationships, and that is excellent to see. To be on the other side of it and see how much you can count on the kid.

I came in here just jaded from the meet. The team did so great but you want a title. I had four chances and I was lucky enough that I had some routines good enough to do that.

George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with

It's almost like every day he has a sense of accomplishment, where some guys might even have a good practice, and still not walk away with that feeling. But Adam takes every practice like, 'I'm good at what I do and I'm going to do that today,' and every day he is in here and does that.

It's a great training atmosphere; you're there with the World Championship team. So to come in there and train with them and kind of see where they're at and judge yourself on what you see them do, that was not just an experience, but kind of an eye-opener.

I felt as though a rain shower wasn't going to stop us. Relationships go through hard times. I wasn't going to let a cloudy day ruin what we did. We had a plan. It got pushed back a day, but we made it. We started with destruction. We can only go up.