Judo was one of those sports where they give you guidelines but then try to tell you to develop your own style.

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

Lift up your two hands

You are God’s holy people.

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

I think the sort of person you want at a party is someone who is self-aware, polite and has a basic knowledge of table manners. And that goes for both men and women.

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.

tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.

I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant.

But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all,I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall.

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.