God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?

Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn't.

Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it.

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.