The thing that gets me up in the morning is that I’m really not ready to see someone that I know I can beat holding my belt.

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

The Knower of ‘taste’ is the Soul. The enjoyer of 'taste' is not the Soul.

He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.

Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.

The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of tolerance.

Music is one big thing to me.

Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.

I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.