Respect is the most important thing. Be respectful toward others and have respect for yourself.

The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it

The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.

Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life... When you stop moving, you're done.

It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything... all begins with attitude.

What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.

Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn.

Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

I never asked anything of him, yet he gave me everything. he did not run...

How much you are able to learn is determined by how much you are involved, how much you participate, and how many actions you take.

Whenever there is chaos it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

The only difference with wrestling is we're like a live performance. So we're feeding off the audience and if they do't like something, they can let us know immediately.

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.

Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better remain unwritten. They would at least never become works of art.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.