You have to have fear in order to have courage.

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.

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

It's your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it.

Your eyes have no power to see. They only create optical illusions. Only the mind can see it when it is ready to see it.

Peter sank. "I'd give anything to see time.

I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.

Whatever you do, don't ever use a crutch, and don't ever think of having an excuse for not having said, 'Yeah, I did my best.'

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

In life you can fall down 1000 times but the point is to have the willingness to stand up and to start again.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

A lot of times your spouse sees things about you that you don't necessarily see.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.