True heros are made of hard work and integrity.

I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.

There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work.

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

I think every athlete has their window of opportunity, and you just have to jump on it. You never know when it can end. So I'm just trying to live large while I have the opportunity.

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

Nobody really knows who I am, where I came from, what's in my heart, why I believe in the things I believe, what I see behind the scenes and they don't see.

The Munay-Ki is your invitation to dream an entire new world into being.

I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.

What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone.

I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.

There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of my brain was alive and well before Twitter.

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.