A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

If you work on yourself intellectually, you will be able to realize your potential

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.

I like to challenge myself and give myself a timeline. It pushes me to be more creative and actually do these things, not just dream about them.

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.