Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.

I've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.