Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.

A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet.

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.

As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to hang out with my friends. I wanted to do something fun, and that's what I did

You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry.

By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling… But a world without feeling is a world without pain.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.

Some live in a state of passionate indecision.

My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.

What's interesting is that I get messages from people who think I'm gone. I have messages like "Tony, we're so sorry. We loved you!"

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.