Fighting is the best thing a man can have in his soul.

A good friend doesn't try to break up a fight. A good friend comes in with a flying kick.

A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land, but you throw him in the shark tank and he's just another meal.

The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back!

Be brave, be bold and above all be honest, some people will hate you and some will love you but they will all see the real you

My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.

What is a champion but a guy that didn't quit?... Life is a continuous experience. You only fail by not learning.

There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.

You can't measure a man by his size. You measure him by the fight he has inside.

People ask if I hate my opponents; I don't. I love them. They are the ones that actually make me bring the best I have.

Life is about fighting. You will going to have to fight everyday of your lifetime.

What we can't speak, we say in silence.

A novel is a tricky thing to map.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.

I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work.

My dad is a very snappy dresser; he gets all his stuff tailored. He's an architect, so he's a little more artistically minded.

You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.

Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.

There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.