When you have a little bit more of a threat, I guess you just have a better sense of urgency, and for me that's when the best comes out in me

I do everything in my power to get myself to a 100% so I can perform to my potential... that's all I can ask for.

The more motivation, the more passion you have behind it... There's nothing that can stop you.

I don't know that I'm the best fighter in the world, but I know I can beat anybody in the world. And that's all I need to know.

I take pride in taking the hard road and prove to people I earned it.

When can you enjoy something you'll continue to do it and you'll continue to have that want to grow.

The best part of being on the platform that we are is being able to influence and affect so many people.

I could really care less about the TV and the fame, it's all about that lifetime achievement of becoming a world champion.

Aye, ” he smiles, joy igniting in his stormy gray eyes, stroking my hand possessively as if unwilling to let me go for fear I am nothing more than a hallucination about to wear off.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

I have no problem with whatever the next big look is. Just don't try and tell me that only one look is beautiful.

Labor, you know, is prayer.

Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there.

Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat—like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.

If you're looking for Mr. Perfect, you‟re going to spend your whole life being disappointed, because he doesn‟t exist. You have to get the best deal you can, but there will always be problems.

I was always the funny-looking girl. I couldn't compete with the Brazilian girls. My nose is off, my ears are too big. But I think it's my personality that these designers were drawn to.

Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.

Innovation is saying 'no' to 1,000 things.