The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.

The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

There is something about seeing myself improve that motivates and excites me.

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

I don't have to be enemies with someone to be competitors with them.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others.

If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.

I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.

I've won. Hurray! I don't have to go to school any more.

In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.

Cyclists live with pain. If you can't handle it you will win nothing

Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.

Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.