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

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.

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

Like blood, money is a blessing that should be shared, but you must be a responsible giver.

We travel with our thoughts to great lands.

We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.

The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

Only Christ could have conceived Christ.

I've never really had a favorite player, past or present.

I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans.

I hated teenagers in comics because they were always sidekicks. And I always felt if I were a superhero, there's no way I'd pal around with some teenager, you know.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.