Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!

I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.

The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.

Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.