“It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.”

You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.

I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.

Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.

Success is a project that’s always under construction.

Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.

Sit up straight, listen and participate.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.

The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.

I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.

You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

The second you change the way you look at a situation, your stress levels drop.

I never set out to write a book to change women’s lives, to change history. It’s like, ‘Who, me?’ Yes, me. I did it. And I’m not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.

What we do to animals directly impacts everything, because we are all connected. It disrupts the food chain, it funds terrorism (ivory), it changes our climate, our oceans, it starts wars.

In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.