On The Ice, If I Slow Down,

Winning Does Not Always Mean Coming In First...real Victory Is In Arriving At The Finish Line With No Regrets Because You Know You've Gone All Out.

I Can Look Into Someone's Eyes And Feel Like I Know Her Better, Versus A Phone Call, Where You Can't Get That Same Type Of Emotion. That's Why Text Messaging Gets You In Trouble: You Can't Bond, And Emoticons Explain Only So Much.

I Think So Many Times We Focus So Much On Just The End Result When When We Finally Reach That Point We Realize That Was Never The True Goal. That Was Never Really What It Was All About.

It's An Individual Sport, But Collectively Everybody Shares The Same Motto That Ironman Stands For: Anything Is Possible.

My Father Is 100% Japanese And Came To The United States When He Was Only 18 Years Old. My Grandmother Still Resides In Japan, Which Has Allowed Me To Travel To The Roots Of My Ancestors With My Father.