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Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

When you've something to fight for, you get the best out of yourself.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I work, and I fight. Okay, this could be over a chess board, this could be in life, and so I defend my principles.

To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.