A Fighter's Heart Quotes

“Fighting is a way to force something to happen.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“Bullfight critics, ranked in rows, Crowd the enormous plaza full. But only one is there who knows, And he’s the man that fights the bull.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One man's journey through the world of fighting

“Push on when you think you can't, and next time that moment will come later”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“Somebody asked me if I was looking for something. I am looking for everything.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“Fighting is a way to feel, an anti–video game, a way to force some-thing to happen. That’s what brought me back to it, because when I’ve fought someone, I know something has happened. How many days of your life pass you by that you could take or leave? When nothing really happened?”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“But I fell back on those immortal words at the base of all good decision making: Fuck it.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“faddism”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“Exhausted and feverishly hot, I would burrow into bed, my body aching. I dreamt strange dreams and punched in my sleep.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“This was the feeling I was after. My adrenal glands were triggered and I was fully engaged in the moment: Someone was trying to kill me. The door opened on a new world.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“After the season, I applied for a position with the North Cascades smoke jumpers in Washington State and got a new tattoo on my left forearm, a tattoo of my life, with the motto “Mundis Ex Igne Factus Est,” which means “The World Is Made of Fire” in Latin, a quote from a Helprin book (A Soldier in the Great War) that I had read maybe five years earlier. It captured the idea that life is born of struggle and striving, that true joy and understanding do not come from comfort and safety; they come from epiphany born in exhaustion (and not exhaustion for its own sake). Safety and comfort are mortal danger to the soul.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting