Nobody is born a winner, but anyone can develop the way of thought that guides you to the right direction.

It's not about the past or the future, it's about right now.

A black belt doesn't mean anything. The meaning is in the journey.

When it comes to fighting you shouldn't be thinking at all. You have to clear your mind and trust yourself completely.

Nurture you mind with great thoughts

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.

I dont think about what my opponent will do in the fight and especially what he has to say about me - doesn't matter to me at all.

A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.