Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

I’m not afraid to look bad on the screen.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn’t to take someone down to the ground – the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That’s what the goal is.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

I’m going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I’m going to change the game. I’m going to change the way people approach fighting.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I’m confident with my ability.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

It’s a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That’s what you should learn self-defense for.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They’re not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

Posture for combat is so vital.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

I love women with attitude.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

I am fearless.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I’m not a magician.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

I like to have guns around. I don’t like to carry them.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.