I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

I’ve stopped drinking, but only while I’m asleep.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

My parents weren’t actors or studio executives.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Don’t be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.

In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol – it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

I grew up in a funny way.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago – by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

I think I’ve really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that’s – those are humbling times, you know?

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.