Champions are made from something deep inside — a desire, a dream, a vision.

I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they're the only ones that count.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

When I was defense minister, I was very popular, and now that I'm president, I'm unpopular because I'm trying to make peace. It's much easier to make war and get trophies.

My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.