Mma Quotes
A lot of the techniques are similar in MMA. You just have to look at your opponent and their technique and tweak your game plan a little bit.
A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.
Focus on performance. Outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance.
I need to celebrate life because I'm in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and what I do for a living.
If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life... I try to live my life the same way.
Awkward, odd, and difficult situations will always present themselves. You just have to stay cool and work through them.
In order to keep up with the rapid evolution of the sport, you've got to keep an open mind.
Training, a lot of the time, is just uncomfortable. But discipline is all about doing the thing that's uncomfortable.
When you're in there fighting, there's an energy and there's a focus that is nearly unbreakable.
When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.
The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.
One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.
Before each one of my fights, I make a point of saluting my opponent. I salute the other fighter out of respect, even though he is trying to take something from me.
Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.
Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.
What do you want for your life? And how are you going to get it? Figure that out. And then follow me to gloryville.
Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly.
I would rather be happy and feel fulfilled and challenged every single day than just sit somewhere and get by.
The most important thing about a fighter is something you can't see, and that's his heart.
One training session won't change anything, but 10 will. Perseverance and straight up training.
Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy.
There's a million ways to live on this thing called a planet, I'mma live everyday, I ain't takin' nothing for granted.
I went in there with 100% belief, even though I knew how great the champion was, I just had to believe in myself.
No matter how much you might feed off negativity, a positive message is always stronger.
As a student of life I just want to be constantly progressing mentally, physically, and spiritually.
I know that when I get in there and I leave that cage I will leave with more than I came in.
Through Biblical times, there have been great women warriors and now the sport is so populated that these are the women warriors that we have today in boxing, kickboxing, and MMA.
Somebody is going to win & somebody is not, and that's fine... But we will never refuse to participate because we're scared to fail.
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.
