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" I'm the same kind of guy before all this happened. "

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" I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart. "

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" I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything. "

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