Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

The glory is for those who deserve.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

There's no shame in crawling when one can't walk.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world

A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best.

Rage is essentially vulgar.