America needs to be secure at home and abroad.
An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.
In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.
There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.
I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.
Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.
Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.
There's a battle going on inside you in Ramadan, and for 30 days Allah gives you the power to win.
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal.
The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as high as it needs to be to keep people's attention.