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.

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

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

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

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

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.