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My father raised me from the time I was 12 years old. And it would never occur to me that I wouldn't be strong - I wasn't raised like that.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.

I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.

'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

I have my own strength.