You train, you fight, you show respect at the end of it.

Work ethic, confidence, a laser focus and commitment to accomplish a goal that most people can never imagine.

No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine.

Everyone deals with adversity. It's how you bounce back from it.

When you got a guy that has purpose, now your in a dog fight.

Every day I wake up and I realize how lucky I am to be living this life.

With the skills that I have and with my commitment to getting better I don't see any reason I can't win every single fight I'm in.

If you truly believe in yourself and your skills, most times, it's enough.

If I'm to accomplish my goal of being the world champion I've got to be better; so every day I come in here with a goal, and that's to get better.

No matter how much I respect someone or how much I like someone, it doesn't exceed my will to win.

One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

Well, anything you want to make public is your public business.

Resentment makes anything possible.

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff. Absorbing and illuminating, this new biography will endure.

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.

I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.

I want to play golf, practice and not do much else. I don't drink, I don't smoke and I hate going places where you have to yell at someone who is about a foot away from you.

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.