It was something I really wanted to do. I can't imagine what it will be like to carry the flag and walk through the doors of the stadium. I'm thrilled to lead the team.

It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (child abuse) by not letting it be a secret.

It's easier to limit yourself, but if you do, you will never reach your true potential.

If you want it and you dream about it...there's nothing that's going to stop you.

There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.

What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to talk about something and hopefully do some good in this world.

Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?

I am thankful to Lord for His immeasurable blessing upon my life.

The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs.

There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

It is not peace that I seek, but life.

I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories.