Chad Hedrick
Chad Hedrick
Chad Hedrickis an American inline speed skater and ice speed skater. He was born in Spring, Texas...
compete develop good happy help lap speed talked time
I'm going to go out there and compete like I always do, but at the same time I'm going to use it to develop speed for the first lap of my 1,500. I think that's a good thing. I think it's going to help me, so I'm happy Bart talked me into it.
feeling good
This is not about yourself. It wasn't a good feeling for me after the 1,000 meters.
champion few good olympic people start
I feel good that I'm able to be one of the few people that can be in the 1,000 meters and still potentially be the 10,000-meter Olympic champion as well. The better my start gets, the more competitive I'm going to be.
good hold last pressure record
The good thing is I hold the world record in the last two races. All the pressure is on me. I'll be the favorite. I like that.
expected finish second skate
I never expected to finish second or third. I always skate to win.
knew skating
I knew Carl and I were skating for silver.
fifth jones moving picked race roy
I'm like Roy Jones Jr. moving up to heavyweight. I picked up a new race and I got fifth in the world. I think that's pretty good.
difficult pressure trying worry
It's such a difficult thing to do. I'm trying not to worry about the pressure of it.
beat bounce chad everybody prove
I'm going to bounce back and prove to everybody what I can do. You may beat Chad Hedrick once, but you're not going to beat him twice.
run
I'm going to be back, and we're going to make another run for it in Vancouver.
affect care individual team
I'm part of team USA. I don't care about how it's going to affect my individual race. I'm part of the team.
energy expected gone laps race stay strategy
If I would have been the back, with the energy I had left, I probably could have gone through more laps when the race was done. The strategy we set out backfired on us. We expected KC to be able to stay in there and KC expected to stay. It wasn't in the cards.
quit until
I haven't accomplished all my goals. I won't quit until I get there.
few happy head hold left medals skate
I'm very happy with my accomplishments. But at the same time, I feel like I left a lot of medals out there. I didn't skate perfect. I let myself down a few times, but I have to hold my head high.