This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.
I recognize that losing is a part of growth in this sport and it's a positive thing in the long run.
I like to test myself and see where I am and how I am against other people in this sport. I think that's the real draw for me.
Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out.
In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique... Just digging down deep will take you a lot further in life.
I love this sport and I absolutely love the support you guys give me; and I will continue to do it until I can't.
Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.
I take it so seriously as far as meditation, notes, visualization, preparation, everything. I take it a lot more serious than a lot of people that play this sport. I'm obsessed with the game that I play.
In order to keep up with the rapid evolution of the sport, you've got to keep an open mind.
The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.
We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.
The price of success: hard work, patience, and a few sacrifices.
It's hard to go out and practice every single day, and you get really tired. But you have to believe in yourself.
There are times when you're tired and times when you don't believe in yourself. That's when you have to stick it out and draw on the confidence that you have deep down beneath all the doubts and worries.
In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.
True champions are team players.
Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.
What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.
From sports the greatest thing I've learned is discipline achieves goals.
If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.
Whether you want to be the best at your job, or at sports, just do your best. Give it everything you have.
If you stay consistent to the sport you will eventually get good, but you have to just want it more to be the best.
Think street, train sport.
Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.
Sports are a metaphor for life.
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