My fear delivered one of the great lessons of my life: That someone without fear can’t push himself. He can’t get better. He can’t transform negatives into positives. He can’t open his world to creativity and invention, or even progress.

The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.

The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.

People don't understand, yeah I'm alright as a wrestler, but I beat people in the takedown because of my distance control - because of my Karate. This is something I learned since I'm 7 years old.

If I come back and I lose, at least I know I did everything I should have done, I have no regrets, I'll be happy. I can die happy.