Fighting Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• Jiu-Jitsu for sure will save your ass, one way or another. Not necessarily a physical fight but also being able to deal with yourself, know about yourself, and really improve yourself as a whole.

  Kron Gracie

  Mma, Way, Jiu Jitsu

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• Just because you lose doesn't make you a loser. It's not the same fight every time.

  Ricardo Liborio

  Mma, Loser, Loses

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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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• Humanity's true purpose is not to become stronger physically, it's to become more intelligent-from armies, who increasingly fight with specialized units rather than regiments and tanks, to garage owners, who use a lot more than jacks to fix your engine. As intelligence prevails throughout humanity, maybe there'll be fewer wars and better cars.

  Georges St-Pierre

  War, Army, Intelligent

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• Before a fight I'm always afraid... before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try to run away from it, but then as I competed more I understood the fact that this is how I'm supposed to feel.

  Rashad Evans

  Running, Hard Times, Mma

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• I think that people are going to find more interest in the human condition, especially with them being weaned on so much reality television. They want character driven stuff along with real violence. Cage fighting is very popular with the kids right now. They see and know what one punch can do to someone's face. You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Real, Kids, Character

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, "Look, I knew I wasn't going to be around. So I gave you the name so that you would grow up strong enough to take the hits and fight back." So I like to believe that's why my parents gave me this stupid name.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Song, Strong, Growing Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they'd ever seen because, of course, watching your parents fight as spies is some strange sort of childhood fantasy.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, Parent, Childhood

  "Maleficent - Angelina Jolie interview". Interview with Jason Palmer, Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I backed down. Psychologically and emotionally, that isn't a low-cost course of action for most boys. You avoid a physical beating, but you pay a real social and psychological cost for it. Those moments of walking away from fights, even though I knew it was the rational and civilized thing to do, cost me tremendously.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Real, Boys, Walking Away

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• What you do in a fight gym is learn how to be brave. You're learning how to punch and kick in a proper way, of course, but above all else, a fighter is someone who's got courage, who's dead game in a fight. Most guys don't come into the world that way. You learn to be brave through that process of getting your fear and timidity beaten out of you night after night after night.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Night, Games, Guy

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Attitude, Thinking

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Tired, Pay The Price, Government

  "Ashraf Ghani: U.S. Critical To Afghanistan's Future". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.wbur.org. March 22, 2015.

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• посол Ирака говорит Our fight - the fight is against ISIS as an entity, as an identity, and as a threat to our culture, our heritage and certainly for the minorities who it's been able to exterminate or try to enslave and others.

  Lukman Faily

  Isis, Trying, Identity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I would hope to think my fans are full of attitude, are a bit vicious, and always fight for what they want. That's exactly what I'm going to give them.

  Cher Lloyd

  Attitude, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.

  Juanes

  Dream, Country, Musician

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• I'm not fighting for the Marlboro-ization of marijuana.

  Ethan Nadelmann

  Marijuana

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• The techniques should not be practised simply so they can be performed in the kata. Since karate is a fighting art each technique and movement has its own meaning. The karateka must consider their meaning, how and why they are effective, and practise accordingly

  Shigeru Egami

  Art, Exercise, Practice

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• Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Battle, Arms

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• I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

  Georg Baselitz

  Struggle, Ideas, Life Struggle

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• So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.

  Paul Begala

  War, Important, Troops

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