Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

I am the only girl in the family so everyone pampered me.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

People like scandals.

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

I realized that health is the most important thing and that all the other things come with time if you are devoted enough.

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.

I am dreaming of leaders who lead by serving.

Attempting the impossibility with a possibility God breaks the impossibility barriers.

Help along one another's projects and plans.

The “Vasco da Gama's era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

The main event has never been the manifestation; the main event has always been the way you feel moment by moment, because that's what life is.

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

If you truly expect something to be difficult, it will be.

Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.