I respect every fighter that gets inside of the ring, especially with me.

I don't predict knockouts. The outcome and the performance I am looking for is a victory, nothing less than a victory.

The word 'snooze fest' comes to mind when talking about Hopkins' fighting style, that's what a lot of people say. He's a boring fighter.

I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It wasn't easy but she found a way to raise us to adulthood. We made it somehow.

The first day of training in Big Bear, it felt like somebody put a plastic bag over my head. After eight weeks up there, I feel very strong.

Inside Ms. Maddox's classroom, it was so quiet you could hear the breathing bounce off the walls.

Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.

People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.

You do not destroy an idea by killing people, you replace it with a better one.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.

The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?