People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

One chance is all you need.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.

Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

Trust nature and make peace with something in your life.

You have a right to dream big but you don't have to kill your dream

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

I have need to busy my heart with quietude.

It's important that women support women. It gives me a great sense of well-being to know that I can make a difference in people's lives.

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.