When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do. Diana Lopez More Quotes by Diana Lopez More Quotes From Diana Lopez If people look at me and, certainly, my brothers, and they see strength and guts, they'd have to know my parents. If they wanted to know why we're so close as a family, that closeness comes from my mother and father. Diana Lopez me family strength mother Neither one of my parents played sports at a very high level when they grew up in Nicaragua. Diana Lopez high parents up sports When he was eighteen, my dad went off to college to become an architect. Diana Lopez become he dad college My mother was the oldest of nine children, five boys and four girls, so she had experience sharing responsibility for a large, sometimes loud group of kids. Diana Lopez experience mother sometimes children Every first Friday, my father would go to confession, and he took very seriously the faith he would someday transmit to us. Diana Lopez seriously go faith father I couldn't stand seeing co-workers who were in the kitchen with( Covid-19) symptoms talking about not wanting to get vaccinated or saying the virus is not real. I'm scared because they were just sent home to quarantine and return to work within days. There are no other health measures, like asking employees to get vaccinated. Diana Lopez