I've spent the majority of my career fighting the best in the world.

I started playing with my dad, and football was my dream forever. Step by step, I learnt a lot. I worked really hard, and finally when I was eighteen, I signed my first professional contract.

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football...

Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.

Though I hunt for anything that is different, I am looking forward to play some historical characters and the role of Gladiator.

I get plenty of credit out on the road.

It has always been a goal of mine to climb Kilimanjaro, so that's definitely happening, and I may write a memoir about it. When I was 25, I tried to trek to Everest Base Camp, but I got sick and ended...

I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

It's like you fight so hard to get to the UFC but then you have to fight even harder to stay there. You fight so hard to get the belt but it's even harder to maintain the title. There is no end game....

Being a fighter is no joke. Year in and year out. Especially as a world champion. All eyes are on you, and you can't go where you want, eat what you want.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

I have had regrets along the way, but when I leave this sport, I'll do so with my head held high. I know I gave it my heart and soul, and I tried to learn and be better every day.

I wouldn't change my era for anything. The team's stayed together.

I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.

I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.

You can't win every game, so I've just got to get back to work and get better next week.

I try and improve each and every game.

There are two things I want to be able to know when I walk into a fight, or with anything in life. And I'm not Superman, I'm not even that great at fighting. Those two things are: I have done...

An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself....

I've had losses in my career before, and I've always come back stronger from those losses.

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

If someone were to actually come to one of our training sessions, there's lots of flipping and sweating and crying and blood going on all over the place. I mean, if that doesn't qualify it as a sport,...

I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.

There's really no path to where you want to go without adversity.

I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambiance. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven...

There is always going to be another game and another day.

Fourth is the worst position to finish. You just missed the podium.

I enjoy being pushed to the limit. Sometimes you feel like you are about to break mentally, but that's what I enjoy.