What discipline means to me as an Olympic medalist | Dominique Blake | TEDxBentonville

[cheering] [applause] You are lazy. At 17 years old, as a freshman at Penn State University, my college coach would tell me, "You are lazy." And I'd ask myself, [sighs] "How in the world could this be true? Me lazy? Absolutely not." I refused to accept this because I was recruited top of my recruiting class in the nation from every division one university. I was the most hardworking athlete that he found in my recruiting class.I was not lazy and I refused to accept this. I earned a full scholarship and even ...