It's a fun event -- way wet. It's one of those firefighter challenger things that grew into a sport.

The event has played to a packed house in its previous two ventures. It's going to be a fun night for a great cause.

I was just speechless. To go in there (Olympic Trials) thinking, just hoping, to qualify for one event at the Olympic Games then to qualify for three events. I couldn't explain it.

That package is very impressive. No one advised them. They put it together. They thought about what the sport needed and what contribution they could make.

I think the navy was trying to get one up on us and trying to get us as wet as possible; we were going straight into the waves. But it's a nice enough day that it's going to dry out.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.