“Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.”

“I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.”

“The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.”

“I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.”

“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”

“Competition is the spice of sports but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.”

“Boxing has become America's tragic theater.”

“I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.”

“Sports is like a war without the killing.”