No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.
Every day is one day closer to the dirt, so you got to go hard.
You have to wake up and say, 'I have a fire in me to be better than I am right now. ' That's your base.
Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.
Why do people watch fights?. . . They watch it for inspiration.
I get a huge kick out of training people, out of helping people, out of just being a part of a process that I get to see people's dreams come true.
Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.
We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We'll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century with dreams.
I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always deal with. I guess everybody does - that existential crisis of human condition. It's nothing new. But I'd love to come across something that really made me believe in something.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.