Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.

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.

If you’re to choose to paint your life today... What will it be? Remember, you’re the artist, not the canvas.

Are you full of the Holy Spirit? Then you will be full of mercy, kindness and love.

I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.

I try to eat how your mother wanted you to eat when you were young.

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.

In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.