Love can overcome everything.

I train with track athletes, which is weird for bobsledders. I love training with track athletes because they help me work on my speed, and they give me something to cheer for during the Summer Olympics.

Biggest rival is Kaillie Humphries of Canada, and we are actually training partners. She was at my wedding, and I consider her a close friend.

I'm a representative of something that's greater than myself. I'm not just representing myself or my country: I'm representing Christ and what He's done through me.

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

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.

There is a stigma in our sport that men are the better drivers. People think that, because the men compete in two-man and four-man, they are more versatile and that the women aren't great drivers.

I love driving the sled more than anything.

The things I've had to overcome have been crazy.

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 Lord calls us to love everybody.

It's a challenge, but every single German or Canadian I want to beat, I still have to love them. That means competing the way God wants me to compete and helping my opponents if they have a need.

My father's NFL dreams never really felt like motivation to me, but it was something to aspire to. He was such a great athlete, the least I could do is try and use my athletic talent to represent my country in a different way. He represented as a Marine. Maybe I could do something to represent as an athlete.

If I'm honest, the thing I remember the most was the team mascot, Freddie the Falcon. I really remember there was a McDonald's nearby, and I remember eating a cheeseburger in the playground when the Falcon appeared. I'm not sure my dad appreciates that being my favorite memory of him playing.

Our sport is one of the few on the winter side that is so diverse. It shows we don't have to be limited by race or gender or whatever and how far we have come as a sport.

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

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

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

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

I'd rather be respected than loved.

Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

You don't support politicians in their elections if whoever's seeking money only has a goal to stay in office or get in office. You have to pick the people who are going to do the best job.

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

The American people frankly have been, over many, many years - to be blunt - fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children to compete with children in India, China or Korea, they better get them a far better education.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.

I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.

Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.

People think it's strange how briskly I move through museums. Sure, I could stand in front of each piece and stare at it for a good long time. But that's not me.

If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist.

I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience.

I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

I could live anywhere in the world I want. But Los Angeles is the place to live.