It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
My style is like Bruce Lee, I'm like water. It's everything from defensive, to counters, to offense.
Being a world champion is something I'm already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.
Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.
I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.
Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. Thats where I stood on the school food chain.
If you try your best, you can always be better.
I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.
Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes.
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly. . . I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.