It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

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.

Quando penso a tutti i libri che mi restano da leggere ho la certezza di essere ancora felice":

To the one who views from a larger perspective....everything is a blessing.

The destination isn't in finding yourself. The destination is in the search.

The reality is that players can't play forever.

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

It doesn't bother me at all that some people think I am too outspoken.

I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

Home is where the heartache is.

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.