When you get the first knock, it kind of wakes you up: you know, they are men, and it is not like Under-18s when you can take loads of knocks and know you will be fine, that you won't feel anything...

It's sad that we have to sell our training gear, things we get in fights that are a good memory of what we had there, but we'll get new stuff later.

It is always disappointing to obviously concede.

I am a fighter; I will keep fighting and will never give up.

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I'm lucky...

I hope people remind me of my accident every day of my life. Because that means I'm a prime example of somebody who had it and lost everything and may not have gotten it back in the same capacity but...

It's a tough sport, and I've been at it a long time.

I am very grateful to have beaten my cancer, but it has been tough adjusting to my new normal.

When you know you're vulnerable, and you know... your strength and your weakness, you can see life with better perspective.

I don't personally feel that I've lost my fire.

I haven't played a lot as a centre-back, but in those games, I feel like I did well.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

I am lucky to be a film director. I can create, express. It proves that I am still alive and the Khmer Rouge did not succeed in destroying me.

If you lose a title, perhaps it's because your rivals are better than you are. But to be demoted from the top flight is really heartbreaking.

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a...

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

I had held titles in all the major U.K. organisations, but we were struggling to make ends meet. There were times you don't have a fight lined up, and the bills are stacking up.

I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did,...

Anybody can have a dip in form.

A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.

The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat...

Usually if you haven't figured out how you want to play tennis yourself, it is hard to accept the failures of playing five sets.

It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.

The best thing - I say it all the time - what happened at Oklahoma was sitting for a year after I transferred. To sit there and be able to focus on the physical parts of my body. You know, develop,...

In this business, you're dependent on the writer, the filmmaker, the luck of beating out who knows how many people for the part. I'm over getting torn up about that.

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.

If you can force yourself to get through failures and pull something out of them, they can teach you a lot.