I just have to practice hard, get better, and go out there and win impressively - that's all it comes down to.

Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.

Know what your strengths are, but also keep in mind what your weaknesses are; always work on your weaknesses.

You need good training partners - because you’re only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better.

I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad; I just don't think of it.

You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive

I love movies.

You can't applaud a referee.

I've got a good shepherd; you've got a sadistic dentist.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.

If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,” he said crossly, “say so at once and have done!

If someone had asked, How does this compare to kissing Kennedy? I would have answered, "Who?"

Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.