I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.
I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my father told him I was too young.
I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
It's no secret I was willing to commit to Minnesota for five years. I'm very happy with my contract. I'd love to be in Minnesota. But like anybody else, I want to win.
Love is like a bird, they flies everywhere, its free, but its hard to trust someone where they like to stay.
I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.
I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless.
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest.
If a girl came up to me and asked me out, that's a little forward. Guys like it when girls play hard to get!
I don't like baggy clothes and looking like anything sloppy. The arms have to fit. The collar has to look perfect.
I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!
There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.
Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'
People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
