It's easy to talk, it's harder to fight.

The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it

The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.

Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life... When you stop moving, you're done.

It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything... all begins with attitude.

What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.

Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn.

Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

Bill Bryson's is a synthesizing intellect, capable of translating myriad data into a digestible narrative – rare currency in an increasingly atomized society.

I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.

When I was a kid... I don't know which was more embarrassing, when I was really into The Beatles or when I was a hippie.

Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe.

Reduce your wants and lead a happy and contented life. Never hurt the feelings of others and be kind to all. Think of God as soon as you get up and when you go to bed.

I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.

The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around. ... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been ... nearby.

I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.