A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.

A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet.

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.

Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to hang out with my friends. I wanted to do something fun, and that's what I did

A comedy that has been divide in two can never be Restored

The house was safe again, although a little bit more untidy, but at least Vluffy didn’t have to worry about big nasty two headed roaches chasing him down the hall anymore.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

If I go to places where other people are playing, I often get up and play myself. I just enjoy the sound and feel of playing.

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

At the time I wasn’t really familiar with Caucasians and he got me up out of that ’cause they regular people just like everybody else.

In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.