As a fighter, you've got to do what you've got to do to get the big fights.

You could be the tastiest, most juiciest, most delicious peach out there in the world; there's still going to be people out there who don't like peaches .

You're never too good to get better... take that and apply that to everything in your life.

Everything takes time. You have to love the journey and the process.

The biggest factor between winning and losing is the mental approach.

The key to life is to set goals and go after those goals, don't hold anything back.

I always ask myself: "Did I get one percent better today?"

I do my talking inside the Octagon.

When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.

NOTE TO SELF – BOOMERANG EFFECTMy words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect.So be-careful what you send out!

They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.“You?”“Great.”They’d trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence.

I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

You can never control a wild heart no matter how hard you try.

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.