For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.

Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before that way is found or followed.

Complexity is a product of unawareness and simplicity a result of awareness! Uncomplex yourself, Live Life!

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow.

I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.

For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line.

There are so many good venues in Chicago.

I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.