“Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?”

The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

A good feeling for me is when you train, and then you put on fresh clothes. New clothes after a training session – you have this rush of endorphins from exercise that everybody gets, and then you get that nice feeling of fresh clothes. It’s a double whammy.

You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that’s stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have.

It’s good to make your brain work more than your body.

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That’s the three ways to beat a man.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

I break orbital bones.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

If you deserve it, go get it.

I am fearless.

I run New York City!

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

If you’re going through a divorce and you’re in a comedy you have to find some way to find the funny side of things even though you might not want to.

I don’t mind talking about the game. I don’t mind talking about what we go through as players, because I want people to get a deeper look inside instead of looking at stats all the time or looking at numbers or just watching the game.

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.