While looking one's best was important to my mother, looking natural took precedence.

Judge a person not by how he treats you, but how he treats others. The former reflects what he wants you to think of him, the latter truly reflects who he is.

I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.

It always looks beautiful from out there. You don't see the trash and the gunk, ... I've always been fascinated about being in a balloon - it's as close to flying as you can get without being a bird.

You pass by a car wreck and everybody looks. You may cover your face but you are looking through your fingers. Why do people go to NASCAR races? It's not to watch the cars go around in a circle. It's to see the crashes. Hockey is the same thing, fights. You don't go to a rodeo to watch a guy stay on a bull for eight seconds. You want to see that guy get thrown off and stomped. ... Our sport is the only true sport, man versus man. This is for real. This is as real as it gets. People are trying to inflict some pain on their opponent.

It looks like a soft-tissue injury, a badly bruised muscle.