I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.

Look at it! It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, man! Let me go out there and let me get one wave, just one wave before you take me in. I mean, come on man, where I am I gonna go? Cliffs on both sides! I'm not gonna paddle my way to New Zealand! Come on, compadre. Come on!

My indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I'm getting skinny. I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden, you pull your eyes down and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.

I've never been one to run from a challenge.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.