There's two things you need to know. One, that you won't quit on yourself, and two, that I've done the work.

The ladies kept telling me I wasn't good in bed, so I figured if I wasn't a lover then I must be a fighter

My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.

Genius is insanity right up until it works.

Do things that make your body and mind scream at you to quit, but don't.

Any big task if you look at the grand picture... it seems to big to accomplish, so just watch the footstep in front of you... And that's what I do; try and win little battles every day.

I live below my means because it makes what I do seem less like a job and more like a passion.

Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.

Control all the variables you can... don't worry about the rest.

If you're humble in defeat, everyone may still kick you, but they won't kick you as much.

Fear is a good thing because it keeps you alive, but if it becomes so great that it hinders you from doing what you want, you need to confront it head-on

...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals...

I get so sad that sad gets to be.So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so city girl on you. I go so crazy I don't know what to do.

We all have struggle in our lives. We're all searching for personal freedom, whether we're in a bad place or trying to be true to ourselves.

Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.

Costumes are so much better than clothes. They're like drugs, they change your personality.

Those alone are wise who know how to love.