Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.

The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease.

The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

During the 60's, drug use was in fashion in the U.S.

As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.

Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.

Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.

She lives the poetry she cannot write

Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.

Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.

[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.]

Back in our apartment, lights out, The Professor emerged from beneath the bed." - from "The Professor Spends the Night, " in issue 4 of Literary Orphans

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

Due to personal issues, I have been let go from the cast of Glee. Explanations will come shortly.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.