"They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody."

"They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down."

"Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best."

"I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people."