I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

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.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

Oh, most unhappy man, ' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.'My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world, ' said Gregory.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not.

We cannot say that you are spiritually advanced if you are unkind to those around you.

He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.

A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology.

What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.

A big lesson that I'm always having to be reminded of is, you can't control how you feel, but you can control how you respond.