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.

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

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?

You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable... so that when we get our 15 minutes in the cage, we don't panic, we don't break down.

If not now, when?

I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.

No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

we are unique individuals with unique experiences

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off the top of my head.