London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

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.

Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!

I wake up each and every day with a smile on my face knowing I get to do something musically.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten

It’s like irresistible poison: I’m mesmerized by the way it’s making me feel though it has the potential to crush my soul and I drink it down anyway.

I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.