As people get older, they get married, have kids. I'm not married. I don't have kids, so I'm able to focus 100 percent on this.

People in the U.S. didn't know what taekwondo was. But they saw what the Lopezes were able to do with all the love and support and hard work we put in, and what we accomplished. It makes me feel real lucky to be in a position like that.

The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

After Katrina, no one was the same. People, relatives, they were dying one after another.