Always pursue your dreams and work hard at it.

It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.

The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

I don't want to be an exception, because I was very outspoken about Performance Enhancing Drugs. It would be bad for my reputation if I would have an exemption [for doping test] - I don't want to have a free pass, I want to be like everybody else.

I'm so busy during my everyday, when I go on vacation I need to pull the plug like they say, and to do nothing.

As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Mediocrity is not about failing, and it's the opposite of doing. Mediocrity, in other words, is about not trying. The reason is achingly simple, and I know you've heard it a thousand times before: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.