The truth is that I didn’t start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.
Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.
The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it.
If you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you do good.
There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself. I’m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.
My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.
It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.
If you prepare your subconscious for highly stressful situations, you can create harmony with your fears. You can tame fear like a wild animal and use it to your advantage.
Fights aren’t won in the octagon, they’re won in the months leading up to them, in a near-empty gym, in the lost hours of a day, whether I feel like it or not.
I’ve trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.
With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains.
It’s easy to talk, it’s harder to fight.
A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.