“Champions are made and not born. Champion’s feat are acquired and not inherited, earned and not transferred, attained and not deposited”

“What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours.”

“People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.”

“As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action.”

“We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.”

“Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”