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"Out of evey one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty
are just targets, nine are real fighters, and we are lucky to have
them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior,
and whe will bring the others back".
- Heraclitus
“… I know there are a lot of people out there doing
steroids, cheating and every time I run into one of them, I’m
going to call them on it and then I’m going to beat the
%$#@! out of them.… It’s going to be a historic night
because all the kids out there will realize that you can do it
with just hard work alone … he wants to say he has heart
and all this different $#@!, but you can’t confuse steroids
with heart…. It’s two different things, a guy with
heart is a guy doing it with blood, sweat and tears, waking up
with the sore back, the sore body.… What would happen in
the old days when you get caught with a couple of aces up your
sleeve, they kill the guy right there and that’s why I say
Sean Sherk is dead….”
A fired up UFC Lightweight Champion, BJ Penn, talks about his
upcoming title defense against Sean Sherk at UFC 84: “Ill
Will” at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada,
on May 24. “The Muscle Shark” tested positive for steroids
after his win against Hermes Franca at UFC 73: “Stacked” in
July 2007 and has not competed since because of a six-month suspension.
Penn doesn’t like steroids or steroid users very much … this
one is personal.
- BJ Penn -
"By doing something repeatedly, through, and understanding
it, you can diffuse and defuse the fear. This is true for sailing,
riding motorcycles, asking girls out-even getting hit in the face
by a man who wants to kill you."
"You have a specific responsibility to existence, to God if
you like, to taste, touch, and smell what there is to experience.You
have to do everything. If given an option between doing something
and not doing it, you have to do it; because you've already done
the 'not do it' part."
- Sam Sheridan -
"The harder you work, the hard it is to surrender."
Vince Lombardi
A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure
or hire a bodyguard.” Bruce Lee
Champions are made from something.
They have deep inside them,
a desire, a dream, a vision,
They have to have last minute stamina;
have to be a little bit faster,
They have to have the skill and
the will.
But the will must be stronger then the skill.
-Mohammed Ali
Courage does not always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
At the end of the day saying
“I will try again tomorrow”.
-Mary Anne Radmacher
Whether you
Think you can,
Or think you can’t
You’re right.
-Henry Ford
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.
- Domingo Ortega (carried around by JFK in his
wallet)
"The ground is my ocean, I'm the shark, and
most people don't even know how to swim."
- JJ Machado
"A man is not defeated when he loses, he is defeated when he quits."
-
Nixon
"There are many blackbelts, few senseis."
- unknown
"Be careful, lest in banishing your demons, you banish the best
thing within you."
- Nietzsche
"Hell would be if God were to show me things I could have accomplished
if only I had believed in myself."
- unknown
"If there is nothing to be happy about today, be glad that there
is the potential of tomorrow."
-Rickson Gracie
"In the streets, I'd rather be judged by 12 than be carried by
6."
- unknown
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their
commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." -
unknown
"The belt only covers 2 inches of your butt, the rest you have
to back up on your own."
- Royce Gracie
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how
the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have
done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the
arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who
strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who
knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself
in a worthy course; who at the best knows in the end the triumph
of high achievement and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails
while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those
cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore
Roosevelt
"Boxer guys are very tuff, and they play a very tuff game, but
its a game, karate guys, tae kwon doe guys, kickboxers or judo
guys, they are very tuff guys, and a lot of heart and a lot of
training, but its very specifically as a sport, its not a fight,
a fight is everything goes."
- Rickson Gracie
"Take arrows in your forehead, but never in your back"
. - Samurai
maxim
"The complete man must work, study and wrestle."
- Aristotle
"It's hard to beat something that never gives up"
- unknown
"The cowards never started. And the weak died along the
way."
- Viking Saying
"Good men die, but death cannot kill their names."
- Viking Saying
"Wake early
if you want
another man's life or land.
No lamb
for the lazy wolf.
No battle's won in bed."
-Viking Saying (from the Havamal)
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. "
-Chuck
Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 3
Two Wolves
An old Cherokee chief is teaching his grandson about life:
"A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It
is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.
"One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance,
self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority,
self-doubt, and ego.
"The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope,
serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity,
truth, compassion, and faith.
"This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every
other person, too."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his
grandfather, "Which
wolf will win?"
The old chief simply replied, "The one you feed."
Honor, the gift a Man gives himself
– Rob Roy
All men are created unequal.
- Lazarus Long
Beware your thoughts, they become your words.
Beware your words,
they become your actions.
Beware your actions, they become your habits.
Beware your habits,
they become your character.
Beware your character, it becomes your
destiny.
- Unknown
The path of the Warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply
staying on the path.
- Richard Strozzi Heckler, In Search of the Warrior Spirit
Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice.
- Samurai maxim
"Like a Blacksmith pounding a piece of red-hot metal, hard
training shapes and changes your body and mind. It is not by rubbing
or patting it, but only through continous hard work that an ordinary
object can become a sword."
-Helwig
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind
the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I
dance under those lights.
Author: Muhammad Ali
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach
down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce
of power it takes to win when the match is even
Author: Muhammad Ali
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all
the more trenchant for its being lost.
-Joyce Oates quotes
“From nothing to everything is a long way ...From everything
to nothing is one stop.”
-Wladimir Klitschko.
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