“[When I was a kid,] I was just hooping and trying to get better every single day. Never would I have thought that I’d be in the position I am now. But now that I am in it, I gotta ([have] got to) take full advantage of it. I have to make sure I’m not taking any days off, make sure every day that I’m working hard to compete. Because, you know, there are always people out there working hard.”