When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

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.

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.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

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.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.