Collected Wisdom: Jake Dalton, Olympian and former OU gymnast

I figured Mesomorphic was basically an athletic body type or body build.

My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

My very first one I think she was understanding. Her brother had a tattoo of the praying hands and he was killed and he was like one of my brothers growing up. ... My first one was kind of in memory of him. ... She couldn't really be mad at that one.

Yeah, Phillippians 4:13, I got in January of 2012. That was kind of the year leading into the Olympics. I basically wanted to start the year of knowing I would do as much as I could. There were only a few months until trials and that was a lifetime goal to be on the Olympic team.

The (Olympic) rings tattoo. ... It's another band of brothers, almost. Even though you don't know them you know what they were doing and how much time they put in to get there and all they time they've put in their life to get there and while they were in there, how much stress is going on. You know a little bit about their story without talking to them.

You learn who you are, what you do, how you work. You basically find out who you are in the gym.