You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.

I don't need to do all the trash talking. I try to do it with my fists, my knees, and my feet.

It's all about getting better and controlling the things that you can control, which is getting better day to day.

Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.

I've been through a lot of ups and downs. Just willing to get back up and grind every day to try and get better.

I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.

What I've learned from those losses... Priceless.

It's about falling down and getting back up.

It's all about... getting back up and getting back to work and striving to be the best you can be.

I did a lot of smoker fights and fought pretty much every week since Pat wouldn't let me fight until he was sure I was ready. I was also boxing and so I had 30 unofficial fights or more of those.

The sport in 2000 wasn't as big as it is now [in 2008].

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

Our individual reality is borne out of our interpretations. Interpretations come from our experiences.

I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.

The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.

Even people who don't believe in science still have to believe in gravity.

Now I'm not an expert at mathematics, but I calculated it would take at least three of me to take on one third of one of them, even if they were attacking me with just their arse.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.