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.

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.

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.

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.

The future is unlimited for you right now, no one can knows what you capable of. Do not surrender! Only you are capable to change the world.

Challenge anything that could step into your plans with the intention of acting as a resistance towards your fulfillment.

The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

Passion is taking such a bite out of life that when the juices run down your face, everyone licks their lips!

We are in a big, fat, ugly bubble. And we better be awfully careful.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

It's unrated, which means it's too confusing to possibly put a rating on.

There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.

No one is above the law and that I would pursue justice on their behalf.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.