One Of My Mom's Best Lines Is...

Even Though I Was Painted, Even Though I Had On Seven Layers Of Paint - To The Point That I Got A Tan, It Was As Thick As A Fabric - I Think I Felt The Most Naked Because I Couldn't Cover Myself At All. I Didn't Have To, So I Had To Be Much More Open And Relaxed.

Easy Lives Make Boring People And Things Have Definitely Not Been Easy.

I Train To Be The Best In The World On My Worst Day

There Have Been Times In My Adolescence Where I Gave Up. I Was Like, 'i'm Just Never Going To Be Pretty. I'm Never Going To Be Like One Of Those People On The Front Of Magazines.' It Always Seemed Really Strange To Me That The Projection Of How People Are In Advertisements Looked Nothing Like The People Who Were Actually Buying Them. You Know What I Mean? I Never Understood That Mismatch, And Now I Really Start To See That The People You See In The Media Are A Lot More Like People Actually Are.

The Olympics Is A Once-in-a-lifetime Thing. I Was Lucky Enough To Go Twice, But Most People Only Get One Chance. And In Judo You Can Train Your Whole Life And It’ll Come Down To A Split Second: You Can Lose Everything Or Win Anything.