When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.

The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease.

The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

During the 60's, drug use was in fashion in the U.S.

As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.

Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.

We’re all the same. We all have the means to save ourselves and carry ourselves home.

A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

In success be moderate.

I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.

The Quest not only begins in the heart but also ends there.

We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

You should live fully and with enthusiasm, the commands of your faith, but it is not the role of the public servant to mandate that for everybody else.

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.