I’m not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and what it means to persevere. I approach politics the same way.

Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through … such is the basic method of leadership.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn’t gonna be denied.