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Train smart at all times and do your best to avoid injury. Training smart is more important than training hard.
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Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.
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No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.
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I can choose whoever I want, in MMA things change very rapidly, sometimes you don't know what'll happen and there's a guy that upsets everybody. I could fight who the fans would like me to fight the most. For me that's important.
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It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.
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The real test is this one: When you're alone in a room, when you're in a private place and nobody else can see you, what do you choose to do? Eat well, or eat poorly? Exercise, or watch television? Practice something, or do nothing? The best version of the truth appears to you and you alone, when nobody else can see. This is the test of discipline, and it's what makes the difference in your life. It's what regulates your own system and guides it. The individual alone comprehends it.
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When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.
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My fear delivered one of the great lessons of my life: That someone without fear can’t push himself. He can’t get better. He can’t transform negatives into positives. He can’t open his world to creativity and invention, or even progress.
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I'm always scared when I fight. But that fear is what keeps me more alert and more focused. It's good to have fear.
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I went to Jerusalem, the dead sea, it was just amazing. Because what we see in the TV, I'm sorry to say it, I don't want to insult nobody, but a lot of the image that we see from the middle east in Canada - It's sad to say but it's always bad stuff. I was thinking coming here it would be a lot of military, security, everybody would be a little more on the edge, but I see it's amazing. It feels a little bit similar to Miami.
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You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.
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Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.
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For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.
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What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.
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It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.
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That's the way to go. People say: 'Oh, he doesn't want to come back, he's scared,' and it's to play with your brain, to play with your mind. I'm not scared of nobody. I'm not scared of no human being. I'm scared to fight, every time I fight I'm scared, but I'll bite into my mouthpiece and I'll walk the walk.
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With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.
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Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.
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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.
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I'm not impressed by your performance.
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I'm always at my best when I'm fighting a guy who insults me..questions my integrity; it lights more fire in me.
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It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.
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Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.
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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.