My next fight is always the most important fight, so regardless if I'm fighting for the title or not, I always have to go in there and give everything that I've got.

I forgive everyone. There's no reason to hold anything against someone. Revenge is over with.

Never stop believing you can fulfill your dreams.

I don't care if people boo me or talk trash to me. I can't understand what they're saying anyways.

Keep training harder and always challenge yourself.

Train hard and try new things; everything you do outside of the cage counts as experience inside the cage.

Life is really the only place you can learn the most important lessons about how to get dressed and to be happy.

He wanted more, as did I, but we still had a ways to go. I wasn’t a tease and my demands seemed pretty reasonable: always be honest and try not to eat me. ~ Sam, Living Violet

They say everything that can be written has been written. I say we are just getting started.

It's better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn't want to be there

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not getting the real me, the whole me, the true me.

The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

My career has always revolved around what I do and don't want my sisters and brothers seeing me doing