I never aspired to be 2nd. I was taught... you can do whatever you want in this world, so why not be the best in the world?

Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'

One of my mom's best lines is... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.

You have to have fear in order to have courage.

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.

I'm scared of failure all the time. But not scared enough to stop trying.

Don't doubt, don't stop... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting.

You have to fight because you can't count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can't fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it.

One thing that I learned from judo... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort.

I train to be the best in the world on my worst day

Christ said there is a happiness in that acknowledgement of spiritual poverty which lets God come into our souls.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.

His eyes were jet-colored circles of perpetual disapproval.

I feel like there's always something to prove.

I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it.