It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.
I pursue this dream and carry on. I don't dwell too much on the outside, I just focus on the inside.
Pain is part of the sport.
Fourteen weeks before the Mendes fight I tore 80 per cent of my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament]. That is the main ligament for stability. Every day in that training camp when I was working my way back, I was saying "real champions fight through any adversity". That is why I am a real champion and he is not. Look at my eye [he had seven stitches put in an old wound after an injury in training the night before we met]. Fighters fight on. Aldo got scared, he went running and I worry he will run again.
I don't believe in talent. Talent doesn't exist.
Real champions fight through adversity.
There's two things I really like to do and that's whoop ass and look good. I'm doing one of them right now and on Saturday night, I'm doing the other.
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.
Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses. " Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah , later still.
[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.