I never fear my opponent, for me he only represents a new challenge to conquer.

If you don't give up, eventually you will break the cycle and you will overcome any obstacle.

Every time you achieve a dream, you must set another one. Because that will strengthen your path. Or you will become dead, because if you have no dreams, you have no life.

I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.

The Samurai always has to rise and move on, because new challenges will come.

You can have talent and strength, but the most important is determination.

I try to clear my mind of everything, I try to think of nothing. I just let my body act, the body can take control and do what it's trained to do.

My philosophy is the same as a Samurai: To hit without getting hit.

To be happy is very important to do a great performance because you have to be comfortable; your mind has to be clear.

If you gave up, you've already lost. If you keep going, you get to a new level.

Before a fight I empty my mind. Every fighter is able to lose. It is not a big thing. You have to accept what comes and remain calm.

The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe.

I kind of view everybody like a rainbow. Everybody on the planet has all the colors of the rainbow inside.

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.

I used to stand on the Kop when I was here in 1969. The atmosphere and passion on the pitch as well as the terraces was intoxicating and Liverpool became part of me from that day on.

Usually I'm able to imagine something and it comes out as I imagined, more or less.

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

When in doubt, resort to animation.

I am delighted at Des's support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference.

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

He who hid well, lived well.