I like this feeling of weariness after training, when I'm walking home exhausted, dragging my feet. I like this a lot.

Years ago we hardly had anything to eat. Now I earn more money and I see every opponent as a man that tries to put me back to that poorer period. That man has to be eliminated.

The one who doesn't fall, doesn't stand up.

Spirit, like body, needs to be trained. So I think it's necessary to make your spirit stronger. And for he who believes, anything is possible.

I do not talk about my weaknesses, I work on them.

A strong person will not be nervous and not express aggression towards his opponent... he will face the fight calm and balanced.

My weight is not enough and strength is not enough either, so I have to take the fight by mastery.

During the fight my senses dim, and basically, I don't feel any pain.

I've never pumped myself up or made myself angry as some sportsmen do. I think that one should treat his opponent with great respect.

A real strong fighter should always look dignified and calm... I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness.

One who does not fall, does not stand up.

No man has been able to do everything he wants without experiencing failures first.

He avoided small talk at the best of times and this, unquestionably, was a million horrific miles from the best of times.

She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.

A problem defined, is a problem half solved.

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run.