Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.

It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.

My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be.

You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with Mark and my sister, and my brother being the coach, it's a dream come true. It's going to be awesome.

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

And we all know how ladies get minks . . .”Popsy and Sandra chorused the answer together. “The same way minks get minks!

People like getting what they think is free stuff from government.

No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.

What I love is Mexican hot chocolate, like a spicy hot chocolate - adding cayenne pepper to the Hershey's cocoa and making a spicy-sweet treat.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

Universal brotherhood under the fatherhood of God.

As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

We ride and never worry 'bout the fall. Guess that's just the cowboy in us all.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.