I personally hate to fight, but I love the science of boxing.

I feel like nothing is impossible.

Emotional pain is sometimes what we make of it. We can always choose how we react. No matter what the pain, breathing always centers me.

To me, boxing isn't about the other person. It's about me. My inner struggles. It works for me.

I can do anything I set my mind to if I believe and am realistic.

I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.

Stripping away my ego and accepting my truth even if it's not who I want to see. Makes me want to be better when it's exposed. It's very vulnerable and exhilarating.

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

It is obvious that you like to be in control of things. With this girl, you lose control. You despise that, especially since she is younger.- Maria Delgado

All blame is a poor stance, if you perchance upon it.

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

We have to stop judging people who are struggling with their weight.

I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

Do not despise or hate your neighbor because he has been a success; take care of your own case.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.