We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

We're sisters, we're roommates, we're all that.

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

We have the librarians on our side. We have *justice* on our side.

I imagined calling in to my own radio show: Yeah hi, I'm a werewolf, and I'm stuck in a cabin in the woods with another werewolf and a werewolf hunter.

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.