“Pain is not a medallion that you must weigh your bosom with,it's a force you must fight against and never, never let it win”

“..:We might get knocked down, but we must get back up again and again and continue fighting. Fight as if your life depends on it. Never give up. Never backdown. Remember that quitters never win and winners never quit:..”

“It's a joke in the zoo business, a weary joke, that the paperwork involved in trading a shrew weighs more than an elephant, that the paperwork involved in trading an elephant weighs more than a whale, and that you must never try to trade a whale, never.”

“It's not enough to know pain; you must know how to redirect it's force.”

“You can reach, but you cannot touch. It's reflected in your eye, but the message is never conveyed. It is something you decided for yourself, but that does not change the pain you feel. Even so...you must protect what you must protect. ”

“Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at all? Why not be a smith, a brewer, a wool merchant? Why are you in the contest, if not to win, and if not to win, then to die?”