Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

The only one who can beat me is me.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success

The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no radioplaysall sadness, grinninginto flow.

Only one thing that you can see and hear that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, and that is a thunder storm.

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

I want to print books by people in the film industry.

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life

We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.