“There is no greater gift than to give your life for another. That is the most unselfish act a person can preform.”

“Most men have at least once after a one night stand woken up next to someone other than whom they thought they went to bed with the night before. The fact that we just woke up next to a three hundred and fifty pound, buck-toothed, cross-eyed woman that hit every branch of the ugly tree she fell out of. The story afterward will always change what she looked like, and that is one secret we will take to our grave.”

“Thoughts to words, words to paper.A gift we give ourselves, both now and later.”

“Imagine this: imagine you discover that for many years another person intimately shared your life without your knowing it. Oh, you had your suspicions – the indented pillow beside you, the toothpaste with a thumbprint that wasn’t yours. Now it all fits, you know it’s true, but during all that time you never actually saw this person. And so it is with me. She was my shadow-self, unknown to me. She knew passion where I knew only inhibition, then grief where I knew guilt, then terror where I knew anger. She monitored my every thought, manipulated my actions, aided my survival and sabotaged my dreams, for she was I and I was she. (228)”

“The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.”

“I am realizing that intention has a lot to do with how things turn out, and accomplishments don't always have to involve such a difficult personal fight or campaign. So, too, how you tell your story has a great deal to do with how you feel about the circumstances in your life and which direction your story is going to go in.”

“The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.”