Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.
You can't be too comfortable. I have to keep pushing myself to be a better fighter every step of the way.
Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.
I'm a fighter and I just want to fight better guys all the time, tougher guys so I just want to beat better guys and my goal is to be number one one day so if I get a chance to fight a better guy I'll do it, anytime, anywhere.
Stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life.
I'm never satisfied, I always want to do better. That's how it is to be an elite athlete, you're never happy. When you start getting happy and you start feeling satisfied, you're done.
My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you.
Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.