I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

It's really important that as women we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

None of it mattered, because there was music.

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.

But don’t we all deserve a chance before we’re judged?

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker

I'm a small shifty kind of guy.

All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.

Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release

I don't care how good you are at it, but if you don't enjoy playing drums, you aren't in touch with a facet of your humanity. Really.