I'm just so excited. We all are. We've been waiting for this [the gold medal] for years now and it's finally here. This meant so much. It just felt so good.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash.

Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.

Your mind believes what you tell it, so tell it positive things

If silver is used and gold is hoarded than how can gold be of higher monetary value.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

If I don't get murdered/Rob or have troubles/problems... somebody else should have them. This is called "Ballance".

There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.

Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.