In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.
As an athlete you're taught to be selfish. When I'm training, it's usually all about me.
If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure. . . it's always going to be a mistake.
A loss leads to victory, being fired leads to a dream job. . I find comfort in believing that good things can grow out of tragedy.
There have always been people who have written me off. They're not going away. I use that to motivate me. I'm driven to show them just how wrong they are.
I get asked that a lot and I always go back to my mom's, 'No one has the right to beat you. ' I take that to every venue that I'm in. She would say, 'Someone has to be the best in the world, why not you?' I always try to keep that in mind.
I'm the most dangerous unarmed women in the world, I've prepared my entire life to be that way.
We are consumed by safety. Obsessed with it, actually. Now, I’m not saying it is wrong to pray for God’s protection, but I am questioning how we’ve made safety our highest priority. We’ve elevated safety to the neglect of whatever God’s best is, whatever would bring God the most glory, or whatever would accomplish His purposes in our lives and in the world.
It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most. . . . It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.
The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.
You can't get more appreciation than that, to be elected by the fans. That's the ultimate, really.