I try not to get caught up on how cool I am. That way nothing ever gets done. I'm always thinking about what I haven't done.

Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'

One of my mom's best lines is... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.

You have to have fear in order to have courage.

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.

I'm scared of failure all the time. But not scared enough to stop trying.

Don't doubt, don't stop... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting.

You have to fight because you can't count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can't fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it.

One thing that I learned from judo... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort.

I train to be the best in the world on my worst day

Many are they that rise up against you. Many there be which say of your soul, ‘’There is no help for you.’’ But the instruments of death is prepared for your cause.

Romanticism is the expression of man’s urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time.

Black hair and blue eyes are my favorite combination.

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

If I signed a contract that meant someone else wouldn't be playing.

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

Those are governed best who are governed least.