Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon.

Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.

Anyone can train hard. Do you have the discipline to recover?

When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.

When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.

I may not be the lithest, the most talented, or have the fastest time in the field, but I have passion and courage, and sometimes that is enough to do something extraordinary.

Make your race a playground, not a proving ground.

Running is not who I am; it's something I do; it's something I love.

Perfect preparation doesn’t exist. Excellent adaptation does.

By lifting each other up we lift ourselves up

Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the pain rush in and push out the stagnant wounds of the heart. Sometimes a workout sets you free.

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!

Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take.

There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister.

The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.

I always get what I want. If I didn't get it, I didn't want it enough.

Elle Fanning was fifteen when we started [The Neon Demon]. She turned seventeen during the shoot. Four weeks before Cannes, she turned eighteen. She had her prom at Cannes.

Silly boy, you got so much to live for, so much to aim for, so much to try for.

So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations.