I was done with wrestling and I was teaching with competition behind me. It was that experience that gave me confidence and propelled me to fight.

Anytime you lose one fight in the UFC, you kind of have to feel like you are on the chopping block. There is so much competition in this sport.

One day you are the hero and the next day you are the zero. I got to take advantage of every opportunity that I have.

Fundamentally I am a wrestler and like being on top and I like my grounding and pounding.

Thinking differently is my strength.

I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.

Everything in my life has been leading up to this," he whispered. "Everything that's happened, everything I've done has been worth it because it's brought me here.

The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we’re lucky.