If I knew I was going to win, I probably wouldn't even fight.

Everything in life goes back to the basics.

There's always a way you can get better. You can never be satisfied. You can never say, 'That's good enough'.

I'm very comfortable in the storm.

All these feelings that you get before you fight or when you're fighting or training for a fight, it makes me feel alive, and I love that feeling.

Fairy tales are make believe and reality sucks, but I happen to live in both worlds.

I'm a character actor.

Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.

Seconds of focused pleasureable visualization is stronger than 2000 hours of working to obtain a goal

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

I've never lived outside of Canada, so I've been really cold my entire life. Most of my memories are coloured by the fact that I was really cold, just... all the time!

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.