If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

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

Conviction, then, is no part of a sinner’s salvation—but the clear practical knowledge of the fact that he cannot save himself, and is entirely dependent on the saving grace of God.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

All my life I've worked to try to correct and perfect our system of government to make it more fair.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.

Any time you're making a movie, all you want to do is reduce the variables of things that could possibly go wrong. I think that's why we work with the same people over and over again.

Rage is essentially vulgar.

You got to constantly be in character.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.