I'm an athlete, my job is not negotiating, it's not my field of expertise. I'm an emotional guy - it's normal, a lot of athletes are, and we're very susceptible to get our ego cut because of that.

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.

Rather than risking feeling disappointed, they’re choosing to live disappointed.

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

There’s no such thing as ‘not enough time’ out here in the woods. I don’t even have a watch. Time is my own, categorised as nothing more than ‘morning, afternoon, evening and night’.

Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well.

It was interesting; it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a job, I think I'd have to get paid extra.

Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.

I don’t want to react because I don’t want them to know it’s a bad word, but I want to encourage them to talk so I’m like, ‘That’s good!’

I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork.