How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.

It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.

If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.

My life was very Japanese.

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

The difficulty of being a Latin kid, a Latin man in this country [U.S].

I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

Love is manifested not only through the distribution of one's possessions, but even moreso through the spreading of the word of God and helpful deeds.

See, that’s the difference,” Mauvin said. “I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.