We have an opportunity to get better.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.

I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.

You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.

I'm taking my talents to South Beach.

Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.

I'm ready to accept the challenge. I'm coming home.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections.

This is it. This is how I always saw heaven, always by the sea, always by night, always in the dark.

This was one of those non-glamorous parts about college that people never tell you about - worrying that the dilapidated apartment hosting a party would fall apart with you in it.

But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.

The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

Steak is delicious and cows are stupid.

I don't know if it's good to be stuck at one place. I'm probably too close to home on that. Because that can happen-where I'm not the best judge of my own work.