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.

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.

He not only won, he blew everybody away.

So, it's not past your prime.

Things are going pretty good.

It didn't change a lot of things. It didn't change friends or my relationship with my now-wife, or family.

If you want my opinion, I'd say no. I don't think he can do it. You're looking at a guy who's got very, very good chances in three races.

It's fun to watch guys like that. You can't do that just by showing up a couple days a week and being real recreational about it. You got to train, especially at that age. You've got to prepare and be around the rink a lot of hours. I give them a lot of credit.

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.