Fighting Quotes - Page 20

• Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

  Bob Dylan

  Work, Loneliness, Thrones

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• The warrior who's strength is not to fight.

  Bob Dylan

  Warrior, Expression

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• I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they'd never fight again.

  Pete Seeger

  Future, Men, Rooms

  "Song: "Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream"". 1964.

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• Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.

  Mike Tyson

  Spiritual, Determination, Mma

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• A fighter, a real strong fighter should always look dignified and calm and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training, then he will face the fight calm and balanced.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Strong, Real, Believe

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• Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly! Patience, hard work, dedication, never giving up, rising to the occasion and fighting through adversity will make you a champion; if there a will there's a way! Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous however if you keep going you will get there.

  Jesse Taylor

  Giving Up, Ocean, Hard Work

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• As a professional athlete, I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before. And not one of them has ever hurt me in a fist-fight, either. The only thing that has helped me is my skills and the only thing that hurt me is my opponent's skills.

  Chael Sonnen

  Hurt, Athlete, Skills

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• My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you. Also, you could try to distance yourself emotionally from the whole situation. In my case, I just look at it objectively: We are two guys going inside a cage to work. That's it. Try to de-escalate the pressure. Take a couple of deep breaths. Don't hype things up. And stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life.

  Alexander Gustafsson

  Couple, Distance, Order

  "Exclusive Interview: Alexander 'The Mauler' Gustafsson – What Karate Can Learn from MMA". Interview with Jesse Enkamp, www.karatebyjesse.com. April 11, 2013.

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• You have to believe that you deserve great things. You have to believe that you deserve to win each fight that you're in. You have to believe that you deserve to become a champion.

  Michael Chandler

  Believe, Winning, Mma

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• I do the extra... When you do the extra you should never doubt yourself... every fight I have a smile on my face because I know I've done it all.

  Jon Jones

  Mma, Doubt, Done

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• Each person may see a fight in different ways... They can see more to a primal way. Others they can see in a pure artistic way... For me I see the pure artistic way, the way that a true martial artist can show his art.

  Roger Gracie

  Art, Mma, May

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• My desire to fight comes from within... it's a personal journey of accomplishment, not meant to be judges or for me to judge others.

  Cat Zingano

  Journey, Mma, Judging

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• When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you’re never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight.

  Gina Carano

  Mma, That One Person, Share

  "Gina Carano: A Knockout Both In and Out of the Ring". Interview with Mallory Farrugia, bullettmedia.com. November 8, 2011.

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• Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Scary, Lines

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• I don't need to be in a comfortable spot to achieve greatness. I fight for it no matter what.

  Tyron Woodley

  Greatness, Mma, Needs

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• Get hurt in a fight... got to keep going... Heart and mind, they kind of go hand in hand.

  Brad Tavares

  Hurt, Heart, Hands

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• It's easy to talk, it's harder to fight.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Easy, Harder

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• A fight forms a powerful and strange bond between men.

  Matthew Polly

  Powerful, Men, Mma

  Matthew Polly (2011). “Tapped Out: Rear Naked Chokes, the Octagon, and the Last Emperor: An Odyssey in Mixed Martia l Arts”, p.203, Penguin

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• Before a fight I empty my mind. Every fighter is able to lose. It is not a big thing. You have to accept what comes and remain calm.

  Lyoto Machida

  Mma, Mind, Able

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• Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.

  Forrest Griffin

  Mma, Guy, Want

  Forrest Griffin, Erich Krauss (2009). “Got Fight?: The 50 Zen Principles of Hand-to-Face Combat”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• When you're angry, you can't fight rationally. Your body chemistry is all messed up. Your energy goes to all the wrong places. You can't do anything well except get angrier. That's why I like fighting guys who are pumped up on steroids. Fighting is all about relaxing and releasing tension, so your body is flexible and fluid, able to bend and flex quickly, like water. I like fighting angry guys who are really tense. They can't think right, and they can't fight right.

  Frank Shamrock

  Thinking, Mma, Water

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• If I knew I was going to win, I probably wouldn't even fight.

  Kron Gracie

  Winning, Mma, Ifs

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• One of the reasons I got into fighting was because I'd never really been in a fight. It's like in Fight Club, the famous line, 'How much can you really know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?'... It's the the clearest mirror you'll ever stand in front of.

  Jon Fitch

  Mirrors, Mma, Lines

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• My opponent is my teacher and I am his teacher. I have to show him what he's doing wrong and I have to learn from what he's teaching me. You can't think of him as an enemy, it's the wrong mindset, you don't fight with anger or hate, you're always going to lose that way.

  Jon Fitch

  Teacher, Hate, Teaching

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• For me, and people like me, fighting isn't what we do; it's who we are.

  Chael Sonnen

  Mma, People, Who We Are

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