I did a lot of smoker fights and fought pretty much every week since Pat wouldn't let me fight until he was sure I was ready. I was also boxing and so I had 30 unofficial fights or more of those.

You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.

I don't need to do all the trash talking. I try to do it with my fists, my knees, and my feet.

It's all about getting better and controlling the things that you can control, which is getting better day to day.

Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.

I've been through a lot of ups and downs. Just willing to get back up and grind every day to try and get better.

I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.

What I've learned from those losses... Priceless.

It's about falling down and getting back up.

It's all about... getting back up and getting back to work and striving to be the best you can be.

The sport in 2000 wasn't as big as it is now [in 2008].

I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that moment alone.

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one?

all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

A victim of the use of water as a beverage.