If I die tomorrow the world is in great hands. In a much better hands than mine.

A good friend doesn't try to break up a fight. A good friend comes in with a flying kick.

A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land, but you throw him in the shark tank and he's just another meal.

The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back!

Be brave, be bold and above all be honest, some people will hate you and some will love you but they will all see the real you

My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.

What is a champion but a guy that didn't quit?... Life is a continuous experience. You only fail by not learning.

There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.

Fighting is the best thing a man can have in his soul.

You can't measure a man by his size. You measure him by the fight he has inside.

People ask if I hate my opponents; I don't. I love them. They are the ones that actually make me bring the best I have.

What we dream repeatedly, we become.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

I know I'm a sinner, but make me a winner!

All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks.

Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and they enjoy it.

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.

Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light.

I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.

Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.