“As I approached the bottom of the pass that I knew I had to go over, my perspective changed, right. I knew I had to get over it. I had to face my fears. I had to gain that self-confidence because wilderness does a fantastic thing in the midst of self-doubt: it forces you to humble…”
“I was the first female to ever win a National Golden Gloves bout in Montana… This accomplishment now seems so irrelevant…but to me, it made me a better person. Boxing only heightened many of my characteristics, such as mental strength, confidence, dedication, and hard work.”
“I was told constantly that if I just buck up and show up, it’s not that hard. Since my disabilities are invisible…it makes it hard for people to understand that I am in pain constantly…You never know what someone has lying underneath.”
“The reason I want to tell you this story is to encourage you to be kind to one another, especially to your friends and your family and the strangers that you see.”
“‘I’m here for a good time, not a long time.’ I’ve been saying this same quote since I was in sixth grade, and it wasn’t until my freshman year that it changed.”