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I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.

I need that fear factor in training; otherwise, I might get beat by someone I should never lose against, all because I couldn't get up in the morning.

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

Fear drives you a lot harder than success does.

If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.

I hate losing. I hate getting beat. I'm not used to it.

I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.