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" I got a letter from a mom, and she was telling me about how her daughter is a tomboy and the trouble she has in classes and being around boys. She herself had the same kinds of problems growing up and how inspired they were by me. That was such an incredible email to receive. "

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" I'm not sure I'll ever love softball as much as bobsled. It's like having children: you don't love one more than the other, you just love them differently, and that's how my love for softball is vs. my love of bobsled - two totally different sports with different personalities. "

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" My mom has never cared if I did sports or not. Obviously, she's proud of me, and she loves the fact that I'm an Olympian and she's got these trinkets to hang around with the medals and whatnot. But if I wanted to do whatever, if I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer or whatever, she was going to support me regardless. "

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" A guy like Usain Bolt would be sick behind a bobsled. "

" Making the transition from softball to bobsleigh was difficult, but my family and friends believed in me when no one else would. "

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" All sports have a zone, but ours is at 95 mph. You can feel the speed; you can feel the wind. It's the most euphoric thing I've ever done. "

" I don't like cold weather. "

" The Midland community is huge into softball. They have a lot of competitive men's teams. We played at a beautiful stadium, and our games would be packed every weekend. I'm pretty sure people have my signature on softballs and they don't even know. Because we would just sign so many autographs all of the time. "

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" I love who I am. But being a woman competing in a male-dominated sport and always trying to push the envelope as a female athlete, you get a lot of comparisons to men and things like that. "

" Growing up, most girls have this image of how they want their wedding to be and things like that. I had none of that except for the cake I wanted, and that's what I got. The cake was the first thing we ordered. "

" I was always encouraged to participate in whatever sports I wanted to be in. "

" Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that? "

" We're a sport that was in obscurity for so long, we started to get used to that. "

" I converted from softball. We've got volleyball, we've got track and field. Athletes come from anywhere and then convert into bobsled. "

" Being a minority athlete in this sport, it's been wrought with challenges, but I wouldn't consider myself a trail blazer. "

" Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right. Just shows you how powerful beliefs are and how you have the ability to change your situation and affect what happens to you. The mind is a powerful thing. "

" Sport can transcend bias. "

" Most people watch a game because they're excited about it; I'll sit there and watch lacrosse championships to try to find a female who could be a bobsledder. "

" Anytime you hit a curve, or you hit on the side of the wall, you hit against the side of the sled. We're taking four to five, sometimes six or seven Gs on our body every time we go down the track. And then the crashing. "

" For me, it's always been about continually challenging myself and continually figuring out how to go down the hill faster. "

" Being a brakeman is very physical, and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters. "

" My father was an NFL running back, so I feel like I might be more susceptible, genetically, to CTE. "

" I've been in plenty of crashes! Some are not too bad - resulting in ice burn. Others are pretty rough, and sometimes - rarely, but sometimes - people do get seriously injured. It's a risk we all know of and accept. If you bobsled, you're going to crash - guaranteed. "