“If I wanted to curse you out, I would write everything I wanted to say...” — Claressa Shields Quote

If I wanted to curse you out, I would write everything I wanted to say to you in my diary, and it was like screaming in my head. After that, I would have no feelings for you; I wouldn't be mad at you or upset because I already said it to you when I wrote it down. That's what writing did for me.

I've always had heart to get in there and fight. I was taught everything I knew. I was taught how to jab, why to do this, and why not to do that. I was taught that.

I trained my whole life for the Olympics. I didn't have a childhood, I really couldn't go to the beach with my friends. Couldn't go to parties. Just training, training, training.

The only thing that me and Muhammad Ali have in common is that we are both Olympic gold medalists and both very outspoken.

It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

Well, social media is a curse as much as it is an advantage.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn't always know she had.

I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it's something rather like a curse that you're born with.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.