The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.

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

But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst

How can the power of speech remain when you lie for your own ‘safeside’?

In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it.

I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.

Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means.

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

The challenge of being a manager is to get the best out of everybody, not just the few who are clones of yourself.