Determination is like a muscle. If you do not use it regularly, it fades away.

I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.

Running reminded me exactly who I am and what I am made of.

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

The freedom of Cross Country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.

Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.

The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

I really don't know what's going to come out of my mouth.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

Planned Parenthood is a gigantic bully, using Komen as its own personal punching bag.

I am providing a service that many people obviously value.

Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which has already entered the mind.... That is the real reason for accumulating knowledge.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.