My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she’s ever gone through in her life. So…if [a cesarean] doesn’t happen, I’ll be like, `Epidural, please!’ Hopefully my athletic abilities will take over.

Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.

I learned to never quit, and academics always come first. I had to make sure to get my degree, because I learned that athletic ability and sports don’t last forever.

[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections. It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability.