I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

I was the child who would leave school and take her clothes off the second I got into the house. I made my mom buy me lingerie when I was 5 years old. I was a sicko. My mother must have been mortified.

My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn't allowed, it just wasn't done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be.

I didn't want to be the type of mother where my child came to me, and I can't even help her with her homework.

Faith, family, and football is how I prioritize my life. And they all go together, but they go in that order.