Fighting Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• All these feelings that you get before you fight or when you're fighting or training for a fight, it makes me feel alive, and I love that feeling.

  Kron Gracie

  Mma, Feelings, Training

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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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• Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Sports, Art, Strong

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's an empirical question whether training makes one more or less likely to get in a fight outside the gym. In some ways, I'm probably more likely to get into a fight, because I feel more competent, and I know what it's cost me in the past to back down from fights, and I don't want to feel that way.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Past, Training, Cost

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

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• The top fighters spar hard. They're really sparring for two reasons: One is to improve their technique, but the other, which is just as important, is to build endurance, toughness, and courage. They want to practice as realistically as possible so that when they go into a real fight, the transition isn't as jarring.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Real, Practice, Two

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

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• I watch fights and I often feel morally compromised by it. I feel like I'm morally culpable for what's occurring because I'm the spectator and ultimately footing the bill for the spectacle.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Watches, Bills, Feels

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

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• In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might fear that the athletes are being exploited. But that narrative doesn't hold up very well in the world of MMA, where 99 percent of fighters are amateurs who will never earn a dime. They aren't seeking fame and fortune. For the most part, these guys are fighting because they want to and because it gives them an opportunity to strive for something big in their lives. It gives them a chance to become their best selves.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Athlete, Opportunity, Self

  "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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• I remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour.

  Taylor Momsen

  Two, Males, Beef

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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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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• Watching Clay Guida fight is like watching a Tasmanian devil.

  Greg Jackson

  Devil, Clay, Tasmanian Devils

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• Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

  John Bolton

  War, Lasts, Politician

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• I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

  Charles Hazlewood

  Hate, Piano, Soul

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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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• Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Oppression, Achieve, Aim

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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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