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.

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.

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.

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.

Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.

He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.

If you're callin' about my heart, it's still yours.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

As a human being, the way Jesus responded to God in faithful obedience and gave his life in service to other humans-is the pattern for all authentic humanity renewed by the Spirit of God.

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

I was just trying to get his attention!" the man protested at the top of his lungs. "If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.