I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.

I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.

Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.

You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.

I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.

I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way.

She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics.

I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold.

It just meant a lot because it's something I've always wanted to do. I've always wanted to be a Senior National Champ. I was Junior National Champ in 2002, so now to be the senior champ is great.

Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.

I think we all have had better days in competition.

I think it helps me. You know, I've got two more meets under my belt, and that's always a good thing.

Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of weird because I've done senior all year, but I didn't get to compete last year because of my elbow.

I love shopping at Zara or Topshop. I'm not going to go out and spend $1,200 on a Chloe top that I'm probably going to spill something on.

It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion be? It should produce peaceful, strong, secure people who are right with God and right with the world. I don't see that evidence very often.

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

I love to cook. It is a simple pastime.

When you find a man you wish to marry Tessa remember this You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says but by the things he does.

What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band coming up with ideas with my band and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage thats what the guitar for me has always been.

I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.

Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.

The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.

The capacity to influence radical groups can diminish significantly once they are viewed as indispensable coalition partners and are able to intimidate the electorate with the authority of the state behind them.

It's never easy to say you're sorry.

My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.

We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

Jamaica never gets worse or better, it just finds new ways to stay the same.

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.