If you truly believe in yourself and your skills, most times, it's enough.
If you are nice, nice things happen to you.
Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.
I fight with emotion, but I don't fight with anger. I could be angry, but I'm not going to fight with anger because when you fight with anger you can make mistakes.
The pressure... It's not real unless you let it be real.
If I can do it, little old me, you can do it. Trust and believe.
Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.
Small choices add up and each positive choice you make increases confidence and dispels fear.
You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.
Everything takes time. You have to love the journey and the process.
Be honest and humble enough to learn from everybody.
I don't like to trash talk... I don't know how to do that, it's not me. In the martial arts world that I was brought up it was all about respect.
Each increment of knowledge imparted in this way is so satisfying-and one's ignorance at every stage so consequential-that the process of learning BJJ can become remarkably addictive. I have never experienced anything quite like it.
I'm afraid of pretty much everything, but there's something inside me that is addicted to scaring myself.
Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.
I've won not just in MMA but also for the US and let me tell you, the US Greco Roman wrestler is never the guy that's the favorite, not overseas. I'm used to going into hostile countries and competing against the number one guy in their country instead of the number one guy in Chicago.
There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.
While wrestling in college as a junior it came to a point where wrestling just wasn't enough for me anymore. I love wrestling, but I felt like I was missing something, and so the striking part about MMA, the boxing and kickboxing, was what got me really interested in MMA. I saw it on TV and I just knew that I wanted to do it.
I love it. It's something I can do that makes everything else disappear.
What do you want for your life? And how are you going to get it? Figure that out. And then follow me to gloryville.
The same thought... crosses my mind whenever someone tells me there's something I can't do: Try Stopping Me.
The sun will rise tomorrow, even if you get knocked out in 30 seconds.
I train twice a day and I make sure I eat right. I'm an avid tea drinker and I enjoy the benefits of drinking MateFit. It gives me energy, speeds up my metabolism and helps me shed excess water weight. I also do everything from MMA sparring to strength and conditioning. I make sure to do a combination of different things with my training.
The only reason I got into MMA was to be the best.
When I had a boxing match, all I wanted to do was put the guy on his back. That's why I chose to chase after MMA.
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