When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.

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.

True heros are made of hard work and integrity.

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.

Without adventure into the unknown, we fail to lay the foundation for any success.

Doctor, I appreciate your diagnosis, but I will not accept your verdict

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

Genius creates from the heart and when the artifact is broken so is the heart.

I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.

The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.

You can HAVE, DO or BE, anything you want! It's a choice and it's YOUR CHOICE.

A good special education teacher is hard to find and even harder to hang on to.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.