If you ever wanna be motivated, go try and be homeless for a day and that will just light a fire under your butt like none other.

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

The true joy lies in the unpredictability of nature.

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

Lose yourself in the music, not the fog

Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom a republic is a raft which will never sink but then your feet are always in water.

I guess, the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life are deaths of people close to me.

God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.