I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.

The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it

The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.

Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life... When you stop moving, you're done.

It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything... all begins with attitude.

What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.

Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn.

Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

Leadership is not about gaining something from your actions. Gain is the outcome and should not be the purpose.

True kindness ennobles the giver

For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.

There's no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear.

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of the dictatorship and the violence of society.

A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.

You are much closer than you think to creating a life you adore.

The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.