It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

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.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

Our higher duty is to fear God.

I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.

You don't love perfectly without first loving imperfectly.

I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! I hope it has inspired people.

There are too many games now where there's too much structure and not enough of the chaos.

Clothes make the body both mysterious and historical.

When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.