I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.

I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more.

I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do.

What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.

I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.

I love working with kids and I want to just be able to do it from my heart and not as a job.

I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

The struggle I went through has value.

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

What I have to do now is figure where my passion is and follow my heart Ive proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I havent been listening to my heart in the last little while.

When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catching every falling tear because He won't let us fall apart.

I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song.

A new broom sweeps clean

I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.

I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.

How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life.

In my judgment, the president should reject Keystone and step up natural gas exports.

I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.

The closest things to an influence would be people like Charlie Watts or Al Jackson. But I didn't really listen to drummers; I basically played what I thought was needed for the Ramones.

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

What the Internet offers is this completely unfiltered transmission of thought to thought, of psyche to psyche, and whatever you're feeling, you can just sort of put it down and send it out there, and you can do it all in the confines of your room, without any actual contact.

In tech in particular, everyone is so serious all the time and has these grand visions.

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.

I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.

I don't think I could survive in cold places.