“When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.”

It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.

I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did…That’s my biggest regret.

Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.

I’m a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.

Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.

We’re all going to have tests in our life… We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We’re all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

Treat the world the way you want to be treated.

I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.

You never lose until you actually give up.

Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.

I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.

I’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

These books ain’t window dressing. I think Machiavelli’s the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin’ ass.

Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.

This white woman came up to me, and I’m thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I’m like, “Who am I? Where’s my heritage?

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.

There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn’t otherwise accomplish.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.