The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

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

I would be disappointed if I were remembered as a runner because I feelthat my contribution to the youth of America has far exceeded the woman who was the Olympic champion.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.

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

I believe in me more than anything in this world.