I’m a martial artist, and I don’t train because I have a fight; I train because it’s my lifestyle, and I’ll train every day if I’m not hurt.

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.

When you are apparently quite selflessly helping other people, you are actually trying to help yourself.

I don't know whyI've got so much hopepinned to someone who will never call me home.

being is one day and a million nights. the blood on the glass, blood lust with the sun holding. the universe beats for the lost and found. with you.

I've never had a very great public life.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment.

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.