After each game, I want to be able to say: I gave it all I could, I gave it my best.

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.

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

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.

When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.

I'm not taking maternity leave from 'Big Brother.' I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show!

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.