Mma Quotes - Page 19

• You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Winning, Names, People

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• When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways.

  Daniel Hudson

  Character, Fighting, Way

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• I've never pumped myself up or made myself angry as some sportsmen do. I think that one should treat his opponent with great respect.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Thinking, Opponents, Made

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• I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Thinking, Water, Way

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• One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".

  Georges St-Pierre

  Fall, My Favorite, Japanese Proverbs

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• Don't focus on the outcome, when you focus on the outcome it creates anxiety and it builds. I just need to enjoy the moment and let it be. If I just fight I know I'm going to go out there and perform and do it my best. Don't focus on winning or losing.

  Luke Rockhold

  Fighting, Winning, Focus

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• It's about being able to go through the grind, willing to get back up when you're knocked down. And when life's not going well, not getting down on yourself and just getting back up and getting back to work, and striving to be the best you can be.

  Robbie Lawler

  Getting Back Up, Down And, Able

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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, Fighting

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• I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.

  Mike Tyson

  Adversity, Average, Refuse

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• We're all going to have tests in our life... We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

  Mike Tyson

  Dark, Doors, Energy

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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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• You've got to remain humble because you never know when somebody will hand you your ass.

  Soa Palelei

  Humble, Hands, Ass

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• I felt like I could be a good example that you don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things. In fact, I truly believe that a lot of people who do great things, many of them have come from harder backgrounds.

  Sara McMann

  Believe, Doors, Order

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• I fight because it allows me to face my fears head on, and conquer those fears one by one.

  Michelle Waterson

  Fighting, Faces, Conquer

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• I think everyone has the desire in their life to be the best at something that touches them, that reaches them.

  Cat Zingano

  Thinking, Desire, Being The Best

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• In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique... Just digging down deep will take you a lot further in life.

  Clay Guida

  Sports, Heart, Thinking

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• Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation.

  Ronda Rousey

  Compliment, Form, Manifestation

  Twitter post from Oct 11, 2013

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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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• There's a very famous Miyamoto Musashi quote. "Once you understand the way broadly, you can see it in all things." The idea is once you understand what excellence is all about, whether it's in painting, or carpentry or martial arts, that you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline. I think that all the different things that I do enhance all the other things that I do.

  Joe Rogan

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  "Renaissance Man". Interview with Steph Daniels, www.sbnation.com. May 15, 2014.

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• If I didn't positive have people influencing my life in a positive way, I don't know where I'd be right now. So if I can do that just in one person's life, it's all worth it to me.

  Mark Munoz

  People, Way, Influence

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• I love this sport and I absolutely love the support you guys give me; and I will continue to do it until I can't.

  Dan Henderson

  Sports, Support You, Giving

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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, Fighting

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• When you have a little bit more of a threat, I guess you just have a better sense of urgency, and for me that's when the best comes out in me

  Jake Ellenberger

  Littles, Threat, Bits

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• I don't want to lose ever. I don't want to lose at anything. I want to make weight faster than the guy that I'm fighting if we both go into the sauna at the same time. When we're doing interviews I want to have quicker wit so that I can make him feel stupid. I want to drink my water faster. And then when we get in the cage I want to beat him up. I don't think people really truly understand the extent that I go to try not to use.

  Daniel Cormier

  Stupid, Fighting, Thinking

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• If I'm to accomplish my goal of being the world champion I've got to be better; so every day I come in here with a goal, and that's to get better.

  Daniel Cormier

  Goal, Champion, Get Better

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