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

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

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

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

Before all else, be armed.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

People want you to fail.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I want people to draw strength from me.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

There is no education like adversity.

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.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

I train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.