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.

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.

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.

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

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

We have a positive power of choice and this is tool we should use to carve greatness out of challenges.

My heart battered against my ribs, my breath stalled and I gazed up into his laughing, smiling eyes...eyes that suddently glowed crimson and cruel.

A double-minded person is unstable in all his doing

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.

At least in a race you have mile markers and know how long you have to go. Labor is like running as hard as you can without knowing where the finish line is.

Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.

Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.