I think every athlete has their window of opportunity, and you just have to jump on it. You never know when it can end. So I'm just trying to live large while I have the opportunity.

I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.

There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work.

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.

True heros are made of hard work and integrity.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

Nobody really knows who I am, where I came from, what's in my heart, why I believe in the things I believe, what I see behind the scenes and they don't see.

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

Maybe you have been looking for peace for no one but yourself.

You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.

The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.

There are no words, there's only the possibility of a moment even more incredible a little bit further down the road.

Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into.

I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable.