But how she responded showed the depth of her desire for success.
If making millions ended the desire for success, this issue of The Forbes 400 would have to be rewritten.
Redgrave himself has previously admitted that much of his own desire for success was fuelled by the injustice he felt when a politically motivated partial boycott of the Moscow Games denied him a chance to compete in 1980.
Results like these moved the head women's coach, Marjan Cernigoj, to state the obvious: "The fear of failure overcame the desire for success".
Whereas he faced up to Portugal's challenge with what the English like to see as their characteristic qualities of energy and doggedness, his native-born team-mates struggled to turn their talent and desire for success into the currency of coherent football.
We're hardwired to desire the likeness of success; it's a remnant of our primordial survival skills mixed with pop culture.
Because their fear of failure was greater than their desire for success.
Chinese staff work just as hard, they are respectful of their work and have the same desire for success.
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure".
It comes from his fervent desire for success, which will propel him into the presence of Allah.
