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When you believe in yourself and you know that you can do it then your body just follows suit.
If you're going to let pressure stop you from fulfilling your dreams, you're robbing yourself.
There was a period where I was wearing MMA shorts a lot 'cause I was doing two-a-day sessions.
Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.
Don't focus on the wins and losses... focus your efforts on performing to your full potential.
The more motivation, the more passion you have behind it... There's nothing that can stop you.
If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life... I try to live my life the same way.
My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one."
Everybody's had those moments of doubt... but it's what you do with that feeling that matters.
Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.
There's 3 types of people in this world: there's talkers, there's watchers, and there's doers.
I've already done everything there is to do. Now it's just a matter of doing what I love to do.
I think you take whatever it is that you would do for free and you figure out the way to do it.
I think that Floyd Mayweather is the best boxer that's ever lived; like actual technical boxer.
It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.
The nerves are good because that keeps you from relaxing too much and getting caught off guard.
Back then in the early '90s, people weren't calling it MMA - we called it Knockdown Sport Budo.
One training session won't change anything, but 10 will. Perseverance and straight up training.
When I stop chasing all the wrong things in life all the good things start to fall into my lap.
The new trend in MMA is to talk trash and curse to get a fight, but I'll never change who I am.
Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.
My whole style of wrestling is I like to use the truck double. It's basically a tackle for MMA.
Brad Pickett is one of the coolest guys in MMA and someone I have a huge amount of respect for.
I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. Keep proving people wrong and proving myself right.
My Jiu Jitsu is with the gi. It's the real style of Jiu Jitsu, it's with the gi and I fight MMA.
The MMA world is a much better place when the Diaz brothers are fighting and thriving, isn't it?
Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out.
You can go out and get anything you want if you work hard enough for it and believe in yourself.
Once I stopped with the excuses, my life has changed. There's no reason for me to lose any more.
You can't enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction.
Johnny Hendricks has better credentials, but in MMA, I might be the best wrestler for the style.
Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.
When you're in there fighting, there's an energy and there's a focus that is nearly unbreakable.
It's all about how I feel about things. I never expect much, I always felt like I obey my heart.
The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel.
Women's MMA has come a really long way. People look forward to us fighting, and they get excited.
You can tell MMA is a carb sport because it's fast; it's explosive. It's not a fat storage sport.
I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.
Sprinkle in a bit of pro wrestling in MMA is good. You get the fans talking. They want that drama.
I want people to say that Jack Swagger/Jake Hager is a world champion in MMA and in pro wrestling.
My weight is not enough and strength is not enough either, so I have to take the fight by mastery.
It's all about... getting back up and getting back to work and striving to be the best you can be.
I don't care if people boo me or talk trash to me. I can't understand what they're saying anyways.
If I wasn't into MMA, I would definitely love to get into motocross. That is a much tougher sport.
No matter how much I respect someone or how much I like someone, it doesn't exceed my will to win.
The biggest gift I received as a martial artist is without a question the capacity to be in peace.
That was my biggest dream, to one day become champion in MMA and boxing. That is my biggest dream.
You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
The only limitations are the ones we put on ourselves and I just don't believe in limiting myself.
Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.