It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now

A true competitor works the hardest, cares the most, and makes the best of what they have.

Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal.

That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold.

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.

You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.

To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.

If you are not prepared, you cannot work out intensely. If you do not perform, you cannot get results, and if you can't do your best to recover, you won't get the benefits of your hard work.

I firmly believe that when you have a foundation of respect, love of what you're doing, and a shared vision, so much is possible.

Life is full of challenges. In the end it's getting up that pulls us through the dark day's. So that we can admire the sunset

but the effort of setting the table, heating up the food and then washing the dishes seemed to him tonight a superhuman one.

It’s not the quality of the answers that changes our lives, it’s the quality of the question

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.

I like critics with strong opinions.

Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.

God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people.