Athlete

The guys I work out with used to have a thing where if we didn't read our Bibles for 10 minutes a day we'd have to do burpees. By now we just figure everyone's doing the reading!

CrossFit is a very humbling sport and you can be really good at something and look like an idiot doing another movement. It's a nasty thing, but it makes it a little more fun.

I like coming home because nobody knows who I am. In Cookville, I'm Rich. I'm not a big deal. People like Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, they just can't live a normal life and you do feel sorry for those guys.

It's not even necessarily the will or want to win. It's the shame and embarrassment of losing.

Doing something for someone else, or working for somebody else, helps you push yourself beyond what you think is possible, or beyond what is possible just doing something for yourself. My faith, my family, whatever, if you're doing it for someone else, you're always going to push a little bit harder.

Some of the people on the teams I've been on need to be uplifted and kind of loved on. And some people don't need that at all - they need to be pushed; more hyped up.

Your body's an amazing machine and it's created to do stuff. See what you can get out of it.

I take protein and amino acid supplements, but I honestly don't know if they do anything.

I want my kids to understand that when family needs something, I'm there. And, on a different note, all three of my kids are adopted.

I use CrossFit to glorify God with the talents he's given.

I loved CrossFit before I even competed, I was just doing CrossFit. It was a completely different thing. You learn a lot about yourself and the people around you when you do it.

Definitely stick with a program for more than a week or too. You've got to ride the program out - a lot of people like to hop around on things, but to get a real good base you've got to stick to a good strength program.

Over the years of competing as an individual, I got a little bit burned out and tired of competing for myself.

Yes, when you win once, you feel you can do it again.

You don't want to be the weak link or the person who lets other people down.

I'd, you know, I'd believed in God my whole life. And then started thinking about it. I was like, 'Am I living like - this stuff I'm reading - am living like we are called to live; to put Christ first, and to live for Christ? Maybe I'm not living like I'm supposed to.'

I'm one of 32 first cousins on my mom's side, and 25 of us are boys.

By kipping, you are able to generate power from the hip, transfer it through the body, then into your arms, creating a movement that originates in your core and moves to your limbs, and also generates more power.

Enjoy the hard days, not every day is going to be fun but the days that are hard is when you get better.

When things get hard, I think, 'Someone somewhere is working harder than me.'