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.

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

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'

The way I felt growing up, which was like an outcast - I was weird, I was a nerd, I read fantasy books - I think a lot of fantasy book readers and a lot of readers and writers in general have that experience of isolation.

Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.

I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.