We play because we love the game, we love each other, and we love to win.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

I just tell people to listen to your heart. Anything is possible if you are doing something you love.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it.

Surprise your doubts with action.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.

What may be on the surface looks like one thing but it's often a much larger problem.