My life is a beautiful struggle.

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.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

The worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

I don’t have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.

In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.

You have a hundred senators, but for anything to happen you need 60, which makes it really hard for anything to happen.

Wake up: all of that 'crack in the street' talk? It's made up, like 'Jack and the Beanstalk.'

Maybe the country doesn’t pray for me like they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I’m on a good wicket as well.