There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.

A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet.

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.

Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to hang out with my friends. I wanted to do something fun, and that's what I did

Greatness is an opiate.

We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies." Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn't abandon an untenable position.

I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade.

But at the time I thought that if I could just get the world to see me the way I saw myself then my body wouldn't be the thing you walked away thinking about. I wouldn't be that fat girl.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

My only interest in women's clothes is what's underneath them.

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

Luck is a strong horse; it can carry man to very distant places!

I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits

Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.