It's not a sprint to get in shape.

I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now

A true competitor works the hardest, cares the most, and makes the best of what they have.

Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal.

That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold.

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.

You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.

To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.

If you are not prepared, you cannot work out intensely. If you do not perform, you cannot get results, and if you can't do your best to recover, you won't get the benefits of your hard work.

I firmly believe that when you have a foundation of respect, love of what you're doing, and a shared vision, so much is possible.

Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you.

Sometimes, all you want is a warm loving embrace.. and no words..

I think that our leadership, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, are taking the right approach.

Anyway, what is the soul but a dream of itself?

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

My mom is really skinny, too. I got it from her. Ive never done yoga before.

There is a missionary spirit—a spirit which urges us to live outside ourselves and to be concerned for the welfare of others.

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

If there are no books. There is no civilization.