- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really too big of a sports fan. Everything I watch is MMA, you know, great fights. But other sports, not really too much.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For every new guy, you need to change a few things in the way you train, the way you take every fight. For every guy I train for, I prepare differently and learn new things, and I just keep them. That's why it's good to be fighting new people, because you add new things to your arsenal and keep getting better and better all the time.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
You just have to fight the perfect fight to win. You have to have a game plan and follow it. You have to develop every time you go out there and keep getting better.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I can tell you is I'm going to be myself. I'm not the type of person that is going to develop into some character or come up with some phrase I will always say.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't dwell on the past and be down on yourself because you lost. You have to take the positive away from it and see how you can improve yourself moving forward.
- Better Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is always a possibility that you could lose, because the outcome isn't written yet: you have to go out and write it. If you want it bad enough, if you do the training and prepare yourself to succeed, and do everything in your power to win, you'll have a better chance of succeeding.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
MMA is so exciting. It doesn't matter if you know the rules or not. If you like a fight, it's automatically gonna draw you in.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't want the fight to stop on a cut or something like that. You want to finish the fight. You always have the idea that you have the chance to stay in a fight, because one blow can end it all.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you talk about me as a fighter, I like being known as a Mexican fighter. I think 'Mexican' or 'Hispanic' should be mentioned.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you know you are 100% and, you know, are ready to go, you just have that feeling. You know you are going to perform well.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020