Parents may be always working, parents may be in and out. When you're dropping them off with coaches, the first thing kids should be coming back and saying is, 'Mom, guess what I learned today? Guess what coach taught me today?'

There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.

I don't train for sports. I've never trained for sports. I train for life, and sport is just a part of that. So when I start training, that's lifestyle training and that's why I go through so many things, whether it's yoga, kickboxing, wrestling or swimming.

Don’t waste talent. No matter what you do, don’t waste talent.

It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.

The journeythe journey, I promise you, is the greatest thing ever. The destination always takes care of itself.

Adversity defines true character.