Quotes About Victory

I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

While paralyzed, I won a gold and three silver medals as a competitive swimmer.

Both my kids are international swimmers and national champions.

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

My whole swimming career was about training to beat Michael Phelps in any race I possibly could.

Grime reminds me that swimming is very gladiatorial.

Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'

Being who I was, I had the best swimming instructor - Duke Kahanamoku - the year after he won the Olympics.

I was away from the game for a few years, and it feels good to be back. I'm bowling quite well and also getting the ball to reverse swing. During the time off, I worked a lot on getting the ball to reverse swing; now it's working well for me.

I'm at that point in my career you can put up all the numbers you want to, you can swing whatever statistic you want to swing, but it doesn't matter if you don't get to the Super Bowl and win it.

I'll be the first one to admit I had some bad at-bats. But I've had periods where I've struck out four times and then struck out four times again. It only takes one swing to get out of it.

I love that mentality: 'Hey - you know what? - you may beat us, but by God we're going to beat the hell out of you.' I'd rather go down that way, with people that will go down swinging than, 'OK, let's accept losing.'

That's football. Sometimes luck swings your way and sometimes it doesn't.

I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.

When I fought Kampmann, something happened in that fight and to me, it's still the most epic moment in my career. I was losing and something happened and I flipped a switch.

Finishing a guy like Benson Henderson, who hasn't been finished since for six years, the guy doesn't get finished and I finished it with a switch-step switch to Southpaw, knocked him out with my left hand.

Learning how to win comes with switching the onus of pressure away from yourselves and then seizing your moment.

I went to see England against Switzerland at Wembley with my dad and brother, too. That was in 2008, Fabio Capello's first game in charge. Jermaine Jenas scored, and we won 2-1. I remember the national anthem was incredible. I sang it with pride - always do.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

A champion without his belt is like a knight without his sword. I've got to have it.

The Bible refers to the Word as 'the sword of the Spirit.' What battles are you not winning if you are not equipped with your sword?

Give me a sword fight any day.

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.