I prepare for the next fight and I train for that opponent. I'm thinking about Dan Henderson and not thinking about the championship.

I don't care that no one has successfully defended the (light heavyweight) title. I care about preparation, training and getting inside the cage to fight.

I always train like a family. Antonio Rodrigo is like my mentor. He helped me a lot. He's always there with me. My coaches and I have made a strategy for this fight.

Or maybe they weren’t changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be.

My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.

Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

God knows there is never a convenient time to fast.

Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.

When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds.

T.S Elliot was wrong. My world ended with a bang the minute we entered the Compound and the silver door closed behind us. The sound was brutal. Final.

Learn to say, “I don’t know the answer.” It could be the beginning of a very good day’s rehearsal.

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.