“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”

“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

“You change your life by changing your heart.”