Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

It's not about the past or the future, it's about right now.

Nobody is born a winner, but anyone can develop the way of thought that guides you to the right direction.

A black belt doesn't mean anything. The meaning is in the journey.

When it comes to fighting you shouldn't be thinking at all. You have to clear your mind and trust yourself completely.

Nurture you mind with great thoughts

I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.

I dont think about what my opponent will do in the fight and especially what he has to say about me - doesn't matter to me at all.

I choose to love this time for oncewith all my intelligence-from "Splittings

But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.

The most baffling about the human psyche is that even after seeing the misery and suffering all around. He is convinced that these would befall only to others and not on to him.

To understand me you should reach my level at my game, so far you are somewhere down I am above.

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.

My image is very important to me. I want to bring a good face to my family. That's the way I've been raised.

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.