As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to hang out with my friends. I wanted to do something fun, and that's what I did

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.

A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet.

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.

Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

When you show love and empathy to people, you draw them closer to your beliefs and traditions

There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.

Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.

I'm an actor, that's my contribution.

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.

Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.