"A lifetime of training for just ten seconds."

"Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become tarnished. Trophies gather dust. Friendships last forever."

"Hitler didn't snub me – it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram."

"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."

"I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up."