Rankings don't mean much to me because they can change after one fight. I just hope that I've at least gotten respect. A respect ranking is all I want.

Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff.

Discipline. Honour. Respect. This is why I appreciate MMA.

My goal is to win the belt, whoever it's on. I'm not gonna settle for anything less.

Of course I want to test myself. I enjoy fighting. But I also have six kids, and I want them to go to college. I hope that I can reach a point where I get the best of both worlds.

I think every [fighting] style has the same core. It's all about changing and positioning, transitions.

A person is a scholar as long as he seeks knowledge. Once he thinks he knows, only then he becomes an ignorant.

The person you are sleeping with signifies the value upon which you have for yourself. You are attracted to who reflects your deepest vision of yourself

False hope is better than no hope at all.

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.

Health is not, in the minds of most people, a unitary concept. It is multi-dimensional, and it is quite possible to have 'good' health in one respect, but 'bad' in another.

The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.