I got involved in the design process a long time ago. I've been working with their main designer [Berlei] for a while. It's been really fun all around.

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.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

It is infamy to die, and not be missed.

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

I really loved my dad. I was very, very close to my dad. He - you know, he was very, very nervous about my being an actor.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.