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

"Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you."

"I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life."

"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."

"There are laws for peace as well as war."

"The roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously."

"I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind."