The best way to pursue any discipline is the martial art way.
You are one miniscule piece of a never-ending cycle. In fact, you're not even a piece. You're just a holder for billions and billions of other pieces. Whether that's organic components, living organisms inside your body, bacteria or whatever it is, you're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.
I decided to be a smarter fighter. I already knew I was tough, so if I was smart and tough, I was more likely to be a champion.
For me, I learnt from jiu-jitsu and martial arts to be humble and to go forward in life in a positive way.
I've already done everything there is to do. Now it's just a matter of doing what I love to do.
I'm too competitive to get that big of a head.
You can delay but you can't deny.
I think it makes your stronger to admit that you're scared, because you're not scared to say that you're scared.
BJJ is like trying to solve a puzzle that keeps changing..so magnificent... yet completely humbling.
Bad choices almost always result from making a choice out of fear.
There's nothing like confidence.
When you have harmony in the different areas of your life, with your mind, body, and spirit, you're just so much stronger, especially in really intense stressful situations.
Everyone in life faces obstacles. That's what made me who I am. I don't regret to have been bullied because probably if I would not have faced those obstacles I would not have been the man that I am. It make my stronger in a way and it helped me to forge the person that I am right now.
A man doesn't require the approval of others. He's willing to follow his heart wherever it leads him. When a man is following his heart-centered path, it's of little consequence if the entire world is against him.
From the beginning of your career until the end, you have people telling you, you can't do something or you're only going to get so far. That either drives you to be become the best or it stops you at the stipulations that other people have for you.
When I don't know something, I surround myself with people I can trust to teach me.
When you prepare a list of improvements and you make them small and achievable, you won't just stick to then, you'll increase the chances that you'll keep moving forward.
In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.
The nerves are good... they keep you on point and they keep you not getting overconfident.
Real friendship, love, respect, and trust are all gained without a single dollar.
Sometimes you start a little further back from the starting line. And you're going to have to work a little bit harder, and push it faster to get to the finish. I'm willing to put in the work, to compensate for other things, to get ahead, to get to where I want to be.
The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.
Fighters have to be optimists.
There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.
My mother taught me that family comes first. It is engraved on my heart.
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