I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.

What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.

Don't follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of tomorrow.

I've had asthma my entire life.

Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.

I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

Frequently, when I'm compared to someone, I'm like, "Is that really what people think I sound like?"

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist.

A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

In America, you break law. In Soviet Russia, law breaks you! In America, you watch Big Brother. In Soviet Russia, Big Brother watch you!