That's why I love fighting, because I get to have a big battle every couple months to make up for the little battles I have to forfeit every day

Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'

One of my mom's best lines is... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.

You have to have fear in order to have courage.

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.

I'm scared of failure all the time. But not scared enough to stop trying.

Don't doubt, don't stop... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting.

You have to fight because you can't count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can't fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it.

One thing that I learned from judo... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort.

I train to be the best in the world on my worst day

We don’t read the Bible, the Bible reads us.

I let myself relax into the pattern of the recipe.

Life is a window of opportunity to love and enjoy.

If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

The hourglass runs low.

Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

I think Channel One was very integral in my career.