I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.

A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet.

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.

Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to hang out with my friends. I wanted to do something fun, and that's what I did

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Don't talk, just listen, and feel with all your heart.

And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be.

The cat is in the sack, but the sack is not closed. The cat is in it, but it's open...and it's a wild cat.

You treat anyone normally, and they'll treat you normally back.

The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.

What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being.

My God, what have we done?

My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.