A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land, but you throw him in the shark tank and he's just another meal.

A good friend doesn't try to break up a fight. A good friend comes in with a flying kick.

The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back!

Be brave, be bold and above all be honest, some people will hate you and some will love you but they will all see the real you

My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.

What is a champion but a guy that didn't quit?... Life is a continuous experience. You only fail by not learning.

There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.

Fighting is the best thing a man can have in his soul.

You can't measure a man by his size. You measure him by the fight he has inside.

People ask if I hate my opponents; I don't. I love them. They are the ones that actually make me bring the best I have.

Life is about fighting. You will going to have to fight everyday of your lifetime.

I’m not broken. Not really, ” I sighed. “My name is Novaleigh. Novaleigh Darrow.

Observe your internal and external world and rise above it.

Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

I protect my skin with sunscreen and am religious about keeping my face moisturized and properly protected all day, so I also use a face lotion with SPF 30.

I like to take folks back to the turn of the century when people said 'gas cars can never replace horses because you can feed horses at your house, you get along with them, they're nice.'

The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.