I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

No matter how many years you play it's always something new and exciting. It's sports you never know what may happen.

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

As a sophomore I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget.