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" I was a shortstop in softball, and a lot of times I had collisions with base runners coming in, so I definitely have scars. "

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" Bobsled boils down to three things - your equipment, start, and drive. To win the Olympics requires all three. "

" There's times when I'll be out in the middle of the track, standing in the curve, and I'll just laugh. 'What the heck am I doing right now? I'm sliding down the hill at crazy speeds and standing in freezing cold weather.' "

" Traditionally, the treatment for a concussion has been to stare at a wall and wait for your brain to heal itself. Don't watch TV, don't read a book, don't look at your phone, and definitely don't train. It's a torturous protocol for an athlete. "

" I think the hardest thing is that all of us would love to just stick to sports - but if you want us to be role models to kids, then you need to stand for more than just sports. "

" The more eyeballs there are on the sport, it will get more diverse. "

" I grew up in Douglasville, Georgia. My father played football for the Atlanta Falcons. We lived a bunch of places when I was younger. I was born in California. We lived in Chicago for a little bit, and finally, we ended up in Georgia. "

" People win medals in all shapes and sizes! And I can't help but say that finding a fiance who loves me unconditionally at any size has played a huge role in my body confidence. "

" Even though concussions affect women more often than men, there's not a lot of concussion research about women specifically. You can slip and fall and hit your head and have a concussion. And unless you know what to do, and unless you're able to take the right steps, you may not be able to recover. "

" 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. "

" For most people, they only thing they know about bobsled is 'Cool Runnings.' Well, 'Cool Runnings' was, of course, four men in a bobsled, and four-man is considered the highlight of our sport. It's what everybody knows. It's what everybody watches. And it's the big dog of our sport. "

" After giving up softball, I didn't know what I was going to do. I thought I would try bobsled, but I wasn't really sure what would happen. I thought my athletic career was over. "

" After the situation I had with my concussion in 2015, how long and lasting the effects were, I'm just more careful about it. "

" 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? "

" I've encountered a lot of biases as a woman. "

" You get this feeling in bobsled, like a combination of excitement, anxiety, and pure nervousness, and you get that combination only very few times. "

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

" In bobsled, you work as a team - a driver and a brakeman. Both athletes push, but the brakeman's biggest responsibility is to push as fast as she can and get in and ride down in a good aerodynamic position. The driver helps to push but gets in first and then steers the sled down the track. We aren't just along for the ride, despite how it looks! "

" The Lord calls us to love everybody. "

" I love this country. I love being a citizen. I believe we are the greatest country in the world. "

" I don't like cold weather. "

" When bobsled is going right - and it sometimes goes wrong - it's the closest thing I could imagine to being a superhero. "

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

" I played all kinds of sports growing up: soccer, basketball, track. You name it, I've probably played it. "

" Sport can transcend bias. "

" I'm E Money because I'm money when it counts. Not sure exactly where or when it started, but I was called it in softball, too. "

" In Sochi, I felt like I lost a gold. "

" I am powered by the defeat in Sochi, as I am by all my defeats. "

" Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete. "

" I'm freakishly good at squatting. "