It comes with it, this is my work and all the media thing is just a big bonus for me. I'm just enjoying being in the spotlight right now so it's not a big deal for me.

Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.

Stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life.

I'm never satisfied, I always want to do better. That's how it is to be an elite athlete, you're never happy. When you start getting happy and you start feeling satisfied, you're done.

You can't be too comfortable. I have to keep pushing myself to be a better fighter every step of the way.

My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you.

You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o

The power to command frequently causes failure to think.

I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

I took some comp for non-comp major classes with Giacomo Bracali and Ludmila Ulela, who was a really famous composition teacher.

It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.

He was a combat veteran from Korea, and he was a great father.

The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world.

Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.