Once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.

Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

I'm always looking for inspiring ways to stay motivated and stay active.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

I never wanted to feel I hadn't worked hard enough.

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad.

It's good to be compared with Randy Johnson, and it's wonderful to be compared to all the best pitchers in the game.

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.