You win the fight in the training camp, not on the day of the fight.

I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence.

Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

All people are different. That's why everybody should be treated the same.

I just don’t want to get hit, that’s all. I want to win without getting hit.

Mike Tyson’s a great boxer. The greatest boxer - but boxer. Not the best fighter.

My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.

I'm not part of the history, I am the history.

The losses are good... if you learn something.

The idea of jiu-jitsu is to give the little guy a chance to beat the big guy.

You put the Devil on the other side, and I will come to fight.

A black belt only covers two inches of your ass. You have to cover the rest.

Talented people without discipline don't go anywhere.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

Exuberance is better than taste.