Our sport is really European, so you get to show off what you do to your friends and family and they can actually follow along.

I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.

To me the Olympic spirit embodies the magic of competition, hard work and coming to a point in your career when you're around the best athletes in the world, and having the whole world watching.

The moment I think about past letdowns or future hypotheticals, I mentally put myself on shaky ground. If I clear my mind of chatter, I can succeed, just like I did in 2006.

I really think positive and hope that everything works out. Because you can't really change anything.

I knew I really had to put down a good run. I played it safe, and took risks when I could, and I came in the fastest, I guess.

I think of how most people only get three weeks of vacation a year. And that, for me, seems like it would be really hard. My life feels like a vacation.

Our sons who so easily recognize our errors and rightly denounce them will have to confess their own later on and they may be as bad as ours perhaps worse.

I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.

Elvis may have fueled rock & roll's imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and original mindset.

It's so weird for me to be watching The Good Wife while I'm still shooting The Good Wife.

Alter strategies and tactics, but never your principles.

People don't always do what they say they're going to do.

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies.

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.