Competing helps me to polish my shape.

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

I am the only girl in the family so everyone pampered me.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

People like scandals.

I realized that health is the most important thing and that all the other things come with time if you are devoted enough.

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.

To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal.

The best story to tell your kids is that of your own family.

In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.

The State Department has been your beat for so long. It has always smelled like Bob Corker was the in case of emergency, the easy guy.

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

You know how people are about not taking care of an animal; they consider it immoral and antiempathic. I mean, technically it's not a crime like it was right after WWT but the feeling's still there.

People have power to make a difference in their lives.

I testify that when we do all we can to accomplish the work that is before us, the Lord will make available to us the sacred key needed to unlock the treasure which we so much seek.