In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.

There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work.

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.

True heros are made of hard work and integrity.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

I think every athlete has their window of opportunity, and you just have to jump on it. You never know when it can end. So I'm just trying to live large while I have the opportunity.

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

We have to change our way of thinking in order to be able to accept the changes that have already begun

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.

I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.