I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
My best performances were when I was 30 years old, and I was a vegan.
I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
I always separated sports and my personal life.
I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - now is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.
As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour