If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.

Wanderlei Silva, six feet tall and 205 pounds, boy, until I met you, I didn't know they could stack crap that high.

When you’re the best fighter in the world today, they don’t call you a great fighter. They call you Chael Sonnen.

Send anyone you want, but don't send anyone you want back.

When I was young they used to call me 'The Foreman,' not because I was in charge but because I did the work of four men.

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

Even if I thought I could get a submission I'm not laying underneath a grown man with my legs spread on worldwide TV. Some guys subscribe to that theory but I am a Republican and we don't do that.

Never piss off a gangster.

Whether I want to be at practice or not, I show up every day. Whether I'm healthy or I'm sick or hurt or tired, I show up every day.

GSP is good, but don't get me wrong he better stay at 170 with the other midgetts.

I don't do camps. Camps are for kids. I don't sleep in tents or roast marshmallows. I certainly don't tell ghost stories or own a sleeping bag. But I do work hard every single day.

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

Show me a man's closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become.

Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.

You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.

In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.