That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold.

I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now

A true competitor works the hardest, cares the most, and makes the best of what they have.

Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal.

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.

You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.

To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.

If you are not prepared, you cannot work out intensely. If you do not perform, you cannot get results, and if you can't do your best to recover, you won't get the benefits of your hard work.

I firmly believe that when you have a foundation of respect, love of what you're doing, and a shared vision, so much is possible.

We had two goals...One was to cherish every moment together, cherish the journey because the journey allows you to learn and grow. The other was to win a gold medal.

I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.

The Truth is always trying to reveal itslef to us in our physical world.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

Eliminate the cause of a mistake. Don't just clean it up.

When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.

Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.

It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

$1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.

Donald Trump's idea that more nations should get nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea.