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The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I’ve learned, is to fight for them.
Fear doesn’t study history or frequency. It cares only for itself.
a fight is much longer than five rounds. A fight takes place over many weeks and months.
It’s having to go through the process that stops people, not their limited potential.
specialists are gifted. It’s in the name—they’re special.
fight his weaknesses and avoid his strengths.
There’s a reason that there’s only one Rome … if it was easy, they’d have built more of them!
“You don’t get better on the days when you feel like going. You get better on the days when you don’t want to go, but you go anyway.”
Growth is a long-term game, and the crappy days are more important.
People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything.
The reality is that eliminating one vulnerability only reveals a new one.
entered the ring the same way I am about to: alone, vulnerable, fierce and determined.
It means that if my line of thinking is wrong, my conclusion can’t be true.
my mindset must be open to improvements at all times, from all sources. This kind of cruelty, the worm and the eagle, is actually kindness.
The real test is this one: When you’re alone in a room, when you’re in a private place and nobody else can see you, what do you choose to do?
The thing about balance, though, is that it’s never stagnant.
Finding balance is just a sign that you know how to invent your own life, but it’s a lesson that keeps evolving.
Whatever their skill level, though, I’m always looking for a willing opponent who’s trying to beat me.
1) to stick to the things I know and do them well, and constantly improve; 2) to grow, slowly and surely, my knowledge base, to become the greatest martial artist I can ever be; 3) to get the maximum out of myself; 4) to develop my abilities into skills, because there’s a great difference between the two.
If I or anyone else wants to become the best at something in this millennium, none of us will get there alone.
Suffering allows you to truly appreciate release, which means there’s an odd relationship with balance.
He unleashed the fight of a champion. The will of a victor, of a man with no concern for his own limitations, of a man with regard only for his own possibility.
My life belongs to me, and I know happiness.
A true master gives all his knowledge, but only when the student is ready to receive it.
The Wednesday after the Condit fight—three days later—I went back to training.
