vulcanized.

“There's a stigma in this world that men can't talk. Listen, if you're a man and you've got a weight on your shoulders and you think the only way you can solve it is by killing yourself - please speak to someone. Speak to anyone.”

“The Champ has a name.”

”The ability to have an embarrassing moment is never a good reason to not do something.”

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

"As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Mediocrity is not about failing, and it's the opposite of doing. Mediocrity, in other words, is about not trying. The reason is achingly simple, and I know you've heard it a thousand times before: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

“It’s what you do after making a mistake - that’s what I like to see. As long as you mature and grow with it, that’s fine.”

For some men these are the most precious, but I believe beneath them there is something even more precious than these. They are driven to pursue it, and they pursue is solely for their own sake, not other. One man's dream can hold dominion over the entire world, for one who dedicates his life to the forging of a single sword. While many can pursue their dreams in solitude, other dreams are like great storms blowing hundreds even thousands of dreams apart in their wake. Dreams breathe life into men, and can cage them in suffering. Men life and die by their dreams, but long after they've been abandoned, they still smolder deep in men's hearts. Some see nothing more than life and death. They are dead. For they have no dreams.”

”Nothing external can defeat the internal.”

”God placed the best things in life on the other side of fear.”

“Life ain’t not having problems, Tara! It’s about being able to deal with the ones you got. You can and you will, if I gotta drag your narrow ass through this world kicking and screaming. Buddha wasn’t lying when he said life is suffering. It don’t mean you get to check out early and leave me here.”

“... a thing isn’t beautiful because it lasts. It’s a privilege to be among them.”

”I am still worthy.”

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

“You’re trying to please everybody. And it’s not god damn possible. You gotta act and let everybody else react.”