My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.

I'm used to being under pressure... luckily I perform well under pressure.

I used to be a cheerleader, but fighting just seemed more, "me". So I went that route.

It's just such a blessing that I get to be paid for something that I'm in love with.

I like the wrestling and executing the throws. My dad was a wrestler and he showed me some of those techniques, too.

I want to go as far as it will take me. I would love to go pro, but if that doesn't happen, I am a gourmet chef and would like to open my own restaurant.

I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.

I can always make up my mind better when there's a man around, because I know the thing to do is just the opposite to what he says.

Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.

The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.

You must make bold experiments in life!

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.