You don't really realize the effect those things have on you when you're growing up but then when you look back you can see how they molded you.

You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.

I don't need to do all the trash talking. I try to do it with my fists, my knees, and my feet.

It's all about getting better and controlling the things that you can control, which is getting better day to day.

Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.

I've been through a lot of ups and downs. Just willing to get back up and grind every day to try and get better.

I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.

What I've learned from those losses... Priceless.

It's about falling down and getting back up.

It's all about... getting back up and getting back to work and striving to be the best you can be.

I did a lot of smoker fights and fought pretty much every week since Pat wouldn't let me fight until he was sure I was ready. I was also boxing and so I had 30 unofficial fights or more of those.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

What song would lull a snake into submission? "John Mayer?""Over my dead body.""Could be, Tim, could be.

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.

Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility.

You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

I know that if I do the right amount of, say, meditation and hot yoga or something, I can move the energy through my body and get rid of my cold within twenty-four hours.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.

I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it