I did start wrestling after I moved to Iowa, I think in the seventh grade. It's really a part of the Iowa culture so it's hard not to do it if you like sports.

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.

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.

How I wish I only felt using my hands and not with my whole heart.

Keep up with the world. There's changes everyday so if you don't think of what to do today, you have to think of what to do tomorrow.

Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.

China after Olympics will progress very slowly. But the demands for freedom - on the part of ordinary people but also party members - won't be as easy to contain.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

In the early stages of innovation, your goal is to learn as much as you can as quickly as you can.

After Michael Jordan had scored a play-off record 69 points - I'll always remember this as the night Michael and I combined to score 70 points.