I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

I tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.