“Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”

“Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.”

“Once you've wretled everthing else in life is easy.”

“Humans aren't defined by death, and they're not defined by what they lack. They're defined by their connections.”

“How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?”

“If you are made for flight, intended for it,you had better find a pursuer, fast.Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.”

“I want to meddle with an Olympic medal made of silver metal. I want to alchemize it into gold, and use a mixture of science and mysticism to transform losing into winning.”