I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.
I'm a huge NBA fan and watch many games each year. Following any sport is kind of bringing us back to our tribal roots.
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
I'm interested in all kinds of sports. I'll glance at the front page and then go straight to sports and then I'll come back to the rest of the paper.
When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
I see success as bringing some confidence back to the American people that despite our differences, we can find some ways to move forward.
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.
But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?
I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.
I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.
I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.
I love Columbus Circle. I rebelled against the construction for a while because I go back to the '70s. There was no Time Warner building. Now I've started to really like it.
I love being able to sign autographs when I get that extra free time after a round just to be able to give back to the fans.
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
