Honesty is the foundation for trust; you can't have one without the other.
You can't live your life through your children.
I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
I always separated sports and my personal life.
I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.
Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.
Part of the reason why I love acting is that you do hope that somehow your work will connect to people and somehow expand their consciousness somewhat, and being able to challenge notions of prejudice through work - through my work - is really thrilling.
It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he'd say, 'Oh, good stuff, isn't it?'