I know that I perform better when I'm nervous and designed a system to trigger my nerves.

I believe when you’re open and you’re willing and you’re just willing for the possible, the possible comes.

I’m so grateful for my disability because I wouldn’t be where I am today without it.

The people that win sustainably over time are the people that not only have the talent, but the shared commitment towards how they win, how they operate as a team, and buy into the full program.

In politics, mastery is how you handle public scenarios where people are coming after you.

The single most powerful shift a leader can make is shifting out of the mode of knowing and operating in the mode of discovering or inquiry – quit providing answers and start asking questions.

Whenever I haven’t had a ‘why,’ I’ve found myself unwilling to unleash the best parts of me.

The benefit of competition isn’t the win, it’s improvement in the moment.

Mastery is having a great self-awareness… it’s being able to perform or put yourself out there without fear of failure.

Science is teaching us how much a simple change in the environment can alter the way we behave, the way we react to a situation, and what we can bring to it.

The #1 thing that has gotten me this far has been my mental approach- without that I would not have been as dominant.

Exactly what I want is on the other side of what scares me the most, so I turn fear into a compass.

Intention — anything you do, have to decide why — I ask myself the question anytime I do something.

The best way to change behavior was to catch somebody doing something right and to reinforce that.

We all have some innate talent or uniqueness within us that's perfectly created, and our job is to figure out what that is and express that to the best of our abilities.

I could see the fear in their eyes, nobody wanted to lose to an 11-year old kid- it was incredibly empowering for me.

The soccer field was the one place where I felt equal to other kids.

When we’re at our best, there isn’t a future and there isn’t a past, you’re just there in the moment.

I believe [breathing] is just as important as the crunches people do in the morning – (the physical training) and the dietary training that we do now. I treat it as a physical exercise."

It's about being comfortable with being uncomfortable, and doing that comes from between the ears... it comes from your mind.

The act of giving and seeing the difference that I've made makes me feel better than anything else could, than whatever car I drive or how much money I make.

Mastery is staying true to who you are and what you feel.

When it came down to making the Olympic team, it was being calm that saved me.

The number one factor that differentiates the good and the great is self-awareness.