Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart.

Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.

Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?

After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.

It's totally freeing when I stay in tune with scripture. I don't have to worry if I miss a dive. I go into competition and it's like, "Praise God no matter what."

Let us love and let it be the purpose of our life.

It really doesn't bother me, " she said. "I've always thought it stupid to try to hide your age, or to pretend to be younger than you are. Denying your age is like denying your life.

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

Simply put; I'm trying to see what I can get done with the horse without him being troubled about doing it.

I am a runner because I run. Not because I run fast. Not because I run far. I am a runner because I say I am. And no one can tell me I'm not.

There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.

I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.