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.

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

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.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

I believe in me more than anything in this world.

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

The triumph can't be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.