Wrestlers Compete as Individuals, Yet the Sport Builds Comradery Like No Other.

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

There will be many challenges ahead, and I'm looking forward to them.

Anyone can wrestle until they are tired.

If we live in the moment every misery shall fade.

People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.

Everyone deserves a shot....and some deserve to be shot.

The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.

More is learned in pain than in pleasure.

Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself.

The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.