What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.
You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.
You have to wake up and say, 'I have a fire in me to be better than I am right now. ' That's your base.
Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.
Why do people watch fights?. . . They watch it for inspiration.
I get a huge kick out of training people, out of helping people, out of just being a part of a process that I get to see people's dreams come true.
Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.
From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.
It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.
I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to me this way. We could not leave (the Philippines) to themselves-they were unfit for self-government-and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was. There was nothing left for us to do but take them all and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and Christianize them.
I learned a lot. I knew I had a lot to learn because it's been so long, but that sure did show up there today.