“At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.”

In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can’t do both of them, you’ve got a problem.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend’s gonna have to prove they’re your friend, and you’re gonna have to prove you’re their friend.

There’s nothing like confidence.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.

Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.

No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it’s pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn’t doing it and that gives me a little edge.

It’s unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you’ve got to go and try to dismantle this guy.

Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

Everybody thinks this is a tough man’s sport. This is not a tough man’s sport. This is a thinking man’s sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.

I always had a lot of responsibilities. I just didn’t take them. I just decided to take care of my responsibilities, live up to them. That’s a pretty interesting job. It’s harder than being heavyweight champion of the world.

I fight for perfection.

A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.