Missy Franklin Quotes

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.

I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.

I am not driven.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.

I am going to walk away when I'm ready to walk away. Not because of a win or a loss.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you're on your own.

I don't need adult supervision.

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

Freedom is control in your own life.

My mom raised me to never have anything control me.

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

I enjoy making the decisions.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.