Anderson Silva Quotes

• I think you should try... not to try to be better than everyone around you, but try to be better than yourself everyday.

  Anderson Silva

  Thinking, Everyday, Trying

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• A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes

  Anderson Silva

  Adversity, Mma, Champion

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• I am not the best, but I am capable of achieving the impossible.

  Anderson Silva

  Achieving The Impossible, Impossible, Achieve

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• I don't think I'm better than anyone; I just like to prove to myself that things I imagine can be done.

  Anderson Silva

  Thinking, Mma, Done

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• You must have a dragon hidden inside you. When you need, you let the dragon out.

  Anderson Silva

  Sports, Dragons, Needs

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• No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

  Anderson Silva

  Mma, Victory, Gone

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• Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.

  Anderson Silva

  Art, Perfection, Everyday

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• If Somebody disrespects me they will pay for it. I promise

  Anderson Silva

  Disrespect, Promise, Pay

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• I am Not The Best, But I Have The Potential To Be Something Great.

  Anderson Silva

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• I believe I can do things people think are impossible.

  Anderson Silva

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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• If you train 100% the result will be 100%.

  Anderson Silva

  Art, Mma, Results

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• Behind every champion is a team that prepared him to become that champion.

  Anderson Silva

  Team, Mma, Champion

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• One can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

  Anderson Silva

  Mma, Victory, Bitter

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• Things will happen. But you have to believe that nothing is impossible.

  Anderson Silva

  Believe, Mma, Impossible

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• Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity

  Anderson Silva

  Mma, Racism, Stupidity

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• I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.

  Anderson Silva

  Sports, Art, Jobs

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• I think old age is in each one's head; so if you're happy doing what you love, you're going to be young.

  Anderson Silva

  Love You, Thinking, Doing What You Love

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• What motivates me is to be able to do what I love to do . . . fight

  Anderson Silva

  Fighting, Able

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• I've already done everything there is to do. Now it's just a matter of doing what I love to do.

  Anderson Silva

  Mma, Done, Matter

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• When you use the steroids, you use them for a long time. When you use the steroids for a long time, you have a problem. It’s a drug and it’s not good for the sport.

  Anderson Silva

  Sports, Long, Drug

  "UFC’s Anderson Silva: Positive steroid tests should mean ‘no more fights’" by Mike Bohn, mmajunkie.com. October 15, 2014.

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• I'm just dying to return to the Octagon and do the thing I most love in my life. That's what I want right now.

  Anderson Silva

  Mma, Dying, Want

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• When the guys test for the steroids, they should have no more fights.

  Anderson Silva

  Fighting, Should Have, Guy

  "UFC’s Anderson Silva: Positive steroid tests should mean ‘no more fights’" by Mike Bohn, mmajunkie.com. October 15, 2014.

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• When I started out, Jiu-Jitsu was really an elite thing in Brazil, and there was some prejudice towards poorer kids, so I had to learn things on my own. Some of my neighbours started doing Jiu-Jitsu, so I started watching it, and then started rolling with them. It wasn’t organized training, but it was better than nothing.

  Anderson Silva

  Kids, Training, Rolling

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• I started in this sport at 12 years of age and the goals I set was to be among the best and be the world champion.

  Anderson Silva

  Sports, Years, Goal

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• I already have a story that's been seen in Glory and I have had many highs and lows, victories and defeats. That brought me experience and it will help me a lot to gain the desired world title.

  Anderson Silva

  Victory And Defeat, Titles, Stories

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