A true champion and athlete is never satisfied with their performance. You can always do more and always improve.

They say people from small towns have big dreams and that pretty much describes me. I had big dreams growing up and I'm still a dreamer.

In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique... Just digging down deep will take you a lot further in life.

I'm far from a saint.

Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.

People will respect what wrestling has to offer to this world. It will take educating themselves on more than just guys in there swinging for the fences.

You're speechless sometimes when you think of the support you've had from the first day I've started wrestling to now.

I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.

I am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA.

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.

I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.

Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male

Inspiration is an empty bank account.

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.

Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.