Make sure you are passionate about the vision.
I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play.
That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.
I'm not playing for lack of options. But this is such a fleeting thing. When I'm done, I'm never, ever going to be able to come back to it. I know Vancouver is my last go.
There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.
Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.
I have enough muscle already. Now I want to use it in more efficient ways.
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland.
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.