In some way I felt I was never good enough until I started fighting. I was always striving to show my worth and value.

You have to be true to yourself and remain humble. Whether you win or lose, you've got to treat everyone the same, and be who you are.

If losing a fight is the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life, you're doing pretty good.

Learn from your mistakes, make adjustments, and go out and compete again. That's the mark of championship spirit.

You're nervous because you're afraid of the outcome. Accept the worst outcome... You'll be free & fight like you're able to.

I'm not scared to fail, I'm not scared to lose, I'm not scared to die, for that matter... It's going to work out the way it's supposed to work out.

I picture success and winning. The body has a physical response to mental images of winning.

I love the training, love the competition, and I still feel like I'm progressing and getting better as a fighter.

I haven't placed any limits on myself

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

No matter what the odds say, be even with who you truly are.

To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry — chock full of it.

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals M C squared.

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

I have never met anyone who is addicted to alcohol who isn't drinking for a lot of dead spirits!