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

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.

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

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. 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.