You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.

Why do people watch fights?... They watch it for inspiration.

You have to wake up and say, 'I have a fire in me to be better than I am right now.' That's your base.

Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.

I get a huge kick out of training people, out of helping people, out of just being a part of a process that I get to see people's dreams come true.

Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.

Fighters have to be optimists.

Every day is one day closer to the dirt, so you got to go hard.

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.

I always look at things as, instead of a problem, how is this an opportunity?

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it

Custom determines what is agreeable.

no person will ever get into my blood as a place can ... People and things pass away, but not places.

No evil is completely destroyed nor are acts of goodness.

Talking payes no toll.

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

Clothing, hair and make-up are just reflective of how I am feeling at any given moment and that varies from day to day.

God is the most important thing in our lives. I suppose that's true of everybody's lives, whether or not they want to believe it.

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.