It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.