I think it is vital that we know the national anthem because we, as Americans, should take pride in the fact that we live in such a wonderful country.

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic

There is a lot of Australia and New Zealand pride around here.

[Muhammad's] greatest contribution to African Americans was in restoring their sense of pride and offering them an alternative to Christianity, for which slavery left a bitter aftertaste, ... But his greatest failure was in refusing to lead them beyond the pride of race and to do what his son Wallace has done: to guide black people beyond a race-based version of Islam to orthodox Islam.

Everyone, including the Americans, helped a lot. But we just want to get back and restore our old life.

We have been so close to beating the Americans in the past two Olympic finals. And this year we want to get some wins over them here in Australia, just to prove we can do it, and then we want to beat them in the gold medal game at the world championships in Brazil.