From the BEGINNING, when my brother Vadim first took me to the boxing gym at 10, I was able to punch hard, and the COACH always put me with older BOYS because of that.

What is there about basketball that makes Larry BIRD or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their PLAYING careers are DONE?

I'm the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football COACH. That SHOWS a lack of COMMITMENT to ATTRACT and retain.

I'm a better COACH now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any JOB, the better you BECOME. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no GOOD.

A COACH's GREATEST ASSET is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his PLAYERS.

I am there for the athletes I COACH.

The thing you MISS most, when you don't play and you don't COACH, is the huddle. You miss the huddle. You miss the ABILITY to walk in the room where collectively PLAYERS are from everywhere. Every RACE, every religion, every color. It don't matter, because you've got a common goal. You're trying to be something special as a team.

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the THREE CIRCLE CONCEPT.

There's a RESPONSIBILITY to REPRESENT female MMA that comes with being the champion, just as there's a responsibility to represent and PROMOTE the SHOW when you coach TUF.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a PLAYER, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized EVEN more because it's about WINS and losses.

I sit down with my coach to WATCH PAST performances. But I can be very critical. I don't watch myself very often - it MAKES me cringe!

I was so DRIVEN in high SCHOOL but did sometimes wish I could go out with friends, go to PARTIES, and be a normal teenager. But having mum as my coach at HOME meant I couldn't sneak around.

I think EVERY time I'm with the team, even in a World CUP, as a COACH, you're CONSTANTLY evaluating.

When I FIRST STARTED singing - before 'Treat Me Like Fire' when I was working with a vocal COACH - I realized that I wasn't even BREATHING when I was singing.