A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

It took Dan Jansen, the speed skater, four Olympics to win a medal-a gold one at that!-but he never gave up. I won't, either.

Believe it or not, Twitter calms me down. I enjoy interacting with people.

Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

Deep squats work so many muscles in your body. Once a week, I do three sets of six, or eight of the free-bar ones, which can help out your balance and work more muscles than doing them on the machine.

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to hang out with my friends. I wanted to do something fun, and that's what I did