There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.

Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.

Easy is not a option..No days off..Never Quit..Be Fearless..Talent you have Naturally..Skill is only developed by hours and hours of Work

Don't think about the start of the race, think about the ending.

I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.

Believe in your dreams and that anything is possible.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

I want to thank GOD for everything he as done for me cause without him none of this wouldn't be possible.

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

I know what I can do, so I never doubt myself.

No matter who you are, no matter what you're doing, no matter how focus you are, no matter how ready you think you? are, you're not gonna catch me

Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]

Here's the thing: You rescue us every day in small, quiet ways, so why not in this way? Let us into your mystery, tell us how you would like to be loved, show us how to see you, really see you.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.