In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique... Just digging down deep will take you a lot further in life.

A true champion and athlete is never satisfied with their performance. You can always do more and always improve.

They say people from small towns have big dreams and that pretty much describes me. I had big dreams growing up and I'm still a dreamer.

I'm far from a saint.

Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.

People will respect what wrestling has to offer to this world. It will take educating themselves on more than just guys in there swinging for the fences.

You're speechless sometimes when you think of the support you've had from the first day I've started wrestling to now.

I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.

I am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA.

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... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.

Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

Haven's warm, clammy palms press hard against my cheeks as the tarnished edge of her silver skull ring leaves a smudge on my skin.

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Usually, a Range Rover would be beaten away from the lights by a diesel powered wheelbarrow.

The origin of love is the beautiful light of the soul.

I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to fall. But it's still worth swinging.