I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running.

I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.