No matter how bad it gets, I can always rise up.

It's the quiet, humble guy that's not saying anything. That's the really dangerous one.

I find motivation anytime I need it, no matter how bad I’m hurting I can push through anything

The only thing you can do is prepare the best you can and then just accept... stuff happens.

I want whoever has the title in a couple of months.

I'm an emotional guy, I cry at movies, man, so beating GSP and winning the world title... yeah, I'll probably cry in the Octagon.

This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.

I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.

His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room.

It's only after their death that people are truly appreciated. It's because they are true to values.

If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up with a different meaning.

It was autumn, the springtime of death.