I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.

It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won.

A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.

I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.

I am very thankful that I have lived the life I have lived. I am thankful for my Graves' disease, and I tell people, if I had my whole life to live over, I would have it, because it has really made me into the person that I am.

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.

I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day.

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.

It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.

It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.

It's totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being able to enjoy the cities I'm in.

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. My true gold medal, though, is my daughter, Karsen, who is 18 months old. And I have a wonderful husband, Mike.

My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.

When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'

While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed illegal by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself vision hard work determination and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.

My lyrics are more country - what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.

The internet is just a world passing notes around a classroom.

Nothing really annoys me, I'm not that kind of person, I'm quite laid back about most things.

I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.

The strongest drug that exists for a human is another human being.

In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

What I say on a record and what I say off a record is two different things. And that's always been the case. There's a difference between confidence on a record and arrogance.

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.