Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

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.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

You can’t be criticized for what you don’t try. You can’t lose your balance if you never climb. Give it, Give it all, Give it NOW.

Whenever I look at me, all I see are things I'd like to change.

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

If you want to kill me, despise me, hate me, and live in an unsightly way... Run, and cling to life, and then some day, when you have the same eyes as I do, come before me

I don't believe anything unless I understand it inside out. And even if I understand something, it is not uncommon that I disagree with accepted view (even if it's a Nobel laureate).

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

When I release, you loose teeth.

I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.