- Brainy
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know those hard days you go home where you've been worked to the bone and you just want to do nothing? In fight prep, every day is that day.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you have with the Bond movies is this character gliding over everything. The fact nothing touches him is why we all want to be him. But it also makes him a sort of superman who in the end you don't really relate to.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I made the UFC, everyone said, 'You need to go overseas.' I thought I had to go as well, and I went to Tristar Gym, and I was there for one or two years. But changes were needed. I'd come off back-to-back losses - Court McGee and Stephen Thompson - and I needed to look at my roots and go back to the drawing board.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
My philosophy is fight anyone, anywhere. If you're going to be the best then you're going to have to beat them all, so why pick and choose?
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I hadn't got into comedy, I wouldn't have met Abbey, my wife, and I wouldn't have my two girls, and the whole thing unravels. That's the thing about being basically - whisper it quietly - happy, is that you don't really want to change anything, because once you start changing stuff, then what you've got all disappears.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you ever get used to being away from home.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Come fight night, there will be nerves, but it's how you react to those nerves - doing what you need to regardless - that's how you win fights.
- Little Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the mental preparation isn't something that you can work on in one large sum. It has to be a collective collaboration of doing little things for your mental state constantly throughout the prep and managing your life outside the Octagon, managing your life in transit to the Octagon, managing your life once you get to training.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020