The sport in 2000 wasn't as big as it is now [in 2008].

You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.

I don't need to do all the trash talking. I try to do it with my fists, my knees, and my feet.

It's all about getting better and controlling the things that you can control, which is getting better day to day.

Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.

I've been through a lot of ups and downs. Just willing to get back up and grind every day to try and get better.

I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.

What I've learned from those losses... Priceless.

It's about falling down and getting back up.

It's all about... getting back up and getting back to work and striving to be the best you can be.

I did a lot of smoker fights and fought pretty much every week since Pat wouldn't let me fight until he was sure I was ready. I was also boxing and so I had 30 unofficial fights or more of those.

Be gentle, kind and loving to yourself.

If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

Beauty is always queen.

English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.

I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it's me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb chops I do on the grill a lot. But you just can't beat brats.

My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.