I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.

You can never give up or get down on yourself. A true champion keeps his or her chin up and always takes life one race at a time.

Remember, all things are possible to those who believe!

Whenever faced with a challenge, I dig deep within myself and summon my spiritual and physical forces. This gives me the focus, determination, perseverance, and support I need to succeed.

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

My life is a blessing every day that I get up. God saved my feet. How am I not going to use them?

I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.

You have to find that love within yourself. If you love yourself, you feel good about yourself, and sports help you feel good about yourself.

I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person.

Love is in the airTonight Baby Take meRight by your side You need love Like I do my love ……………………

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

Some people work for a living and some people twerk for a living.

I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost.

For the love of God, does anybody got a toothbrush?

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.