I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.

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.

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

The truth is that as you are building your small business, still that small business needs to experience some form of increase and growth

I do not dye my hair blackso as to be young again and sin againbut because people dye their clothes black in mourning, so I have dyed my hair black, mourning for my old age.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

But common sense has no place in first love and never has.

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

You know what the left has succeeded in doing, they have succeeded, in terms of the vernacular, the lexicon, they've redefined the word "immigration" and to tell everyone we're anti-immigrant.

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?