Make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.
I don't think I'm better than anyone; I just like to prove to myself that things I imagine can be done.
The only pressure I ever feel is the pressure I put on myself. . . I'm over it. Now I go out there and I enjoy what I do.
Yeah, I get to fight in 'Eclipse. ' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.
In order for me to achieve. . . I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.
In MMA it’s a lot less intimidating because it’s not like you get one shot at a title every four years. You get a title shot every couple of months. . . With the Olympics, you don’t always have this, so there is so much more pressure involved.
Nurture you mind with great thoughts
Positivity helps produce better results.
It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.
From sports the greatest thing I've learned is discipline achieves goals.
I keep having vivid dreams of success. Then it's time to sleep.
You always have a second chance, as long as you believe you do and you try again, and stay positive and persistent and consistent.
Don't just exist, be a part of life.
It's impossible to measure the type of mental strength and determination that's required to be an elite wrestler.
My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's an awesome dad'.
Bad things happen, it's your job to overcome them.
I feel much better to give than to receive. That's why I'm much more happier now as a coach than I ever was as a fighter.
There's a never-ending ocean of techniques out there.
The only limitations are the ones we put on ourselves and I just don't believe in limiting myself.
You could be the tastiest, most juiciest, most delicious peach out there in the world; there's still going to be people out there who don't like peaches.
