"With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things."

“It's possible to do your best work at your highest level without competing. I'm not anticompetition, but at an individual level, it can be degrading for both sides. And it doesn't have to be that way. I've done pretty well at getting past that sort of thing, and it's a relief not to have the rancor.”

Source : Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

“I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.”

“Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.”

Source : Rick Kennedy (1998). “Little Adventures in Tokyo: 39 Thrills for the Urban Explorer”, p.10, Stone Bridge Press

“I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.”

Source : Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

“Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.”

“I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.”

Source : "Talking with "Jackie Joyner-Kersee," from The Neighbors". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. November 30, 2012.

“Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.”

“Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.”