For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

When you give your best, that's all you can ask of yourself, all that people can ask of you and all that god desires from you. No matter what the result, walk with your head held high.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

I am actually nondenominational.

I am just trying to get biblically stronger.

They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong

Prepare to evacuate soul in five, in four, three, two, one.

In the modern world, if you want to travel off the beaten path, stay off the beaten media path.

All that is gold does not glitterNot all those who wander are lostThe old that is strong does not witherDeep roots are not reached by the frost

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

I don't even want to have things associated with my name on the internet - it's very dangerous.

I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.

There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.