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" My favorite thing about South Korea is the people - they are so kind and helpful. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Bobsleigh is best for athletes who are fast and strong, which were my strengths in softball. "

" I trash talk all the time. "

" I've been on every type of nutrition plan you can think of. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The first run in a four-man sled was one of the most nerve-wracking I've had in my life. "

" It's hard to describe what it's like to live with a concussion. You want to enjoy things like you used to, but you can't. You wake up in the morning and wonder how you're going to feel that day: What will my reactions be like? Will I have a headache? Will I have to triple check to see if I unplugged the flat iron? "

" If one little girl who looks like me picks up a winter sport because she sees me, that's all anybody could ever ask for. "

" I feel like sport can transcend a lot of different things. "

" 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. "

" I'm a squat person: I love squats. I love back squats, things like that. "

" I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that! "

" Oh my gosh, cheat meals I could go on and on about. "

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

" Being southern and doing bobsled was difficult from the standpoint that I had no idea how to handle the cold and how to dress in the cold, let alone warm up and compete in the cold - so it was a definite shock. I didn't even own a coat when I first started bobsledding! "

" I grew up playing softball, and at the age of nine, I decided I was going to be an Olympian. I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian. "

" 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. "

" It's important that the Olympics are motivating to young people and inspiring to all, and the only way to do that is to ensure clean performances, free of cheating. "

" Bobsled is best for athletes who are fast and strong, which were my strengths in softball. "

" 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. "

" I love driving the sled more than anything. "

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

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