If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

One chance is all you need.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.

Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

You have to go through the fires to be tested by faith.

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

As a feminine cocreator, having lived through the arc of evolution from 1929 to the present, I offer encouragement and vocational arousal to all!

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Experimentation is the key to 'lively up' the art.

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

Don't try to transport something you don't possess...I want this truth to be incarnational.

What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?