Mma Quotes

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions. ~ Georges St-Pierre

Mma Ramotswe decided to go back into her office. There was a curious thing about male conversation that she had noticed - men often ended up poking fun at one another. Women did this only rarely, but men seemed to love insulting one another. It was very strange. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Lions walk on four legs," observed Mma Makutsi. "Was this man walking on four legs? That can be a big giveaway, Mma. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

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. ~ Carlos Condit

There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom. ~ Greg Jackson

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight ~ Mike Tyson

Just believe, it will happen. ~ Tito Ortiz

Bad choices almost always result from making a choice out of fear. ~ Jon Fitch

I don't want to have a good fight, I don't want to have an exciting fight, I want to have a finish. ~ Michael Chandler

When you have a little bit more of a threat, I guess you just have a better sense of urgency, and for me that's when the best comes out in me ~ Jake Ellenberger

You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things. ~ Sara McMann

No matter how hard you're going, you can always go harder. ~ Pat Barry

I just need to enjoy the moment ... I just fight I know I'm going to go out there and perform my best. ~ Luke Rockhold

It comes down to having fun and doing what I love. ~ B.J. Penn

But we cannot always choose whose lives will become entangled with our own; these things happen to us, come to us uninvited, and Mma Ramotswe understood that well. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Spirit, like body, needs to be trained. So I think it's necessary to make your spirit stronger. And for he who believes, anything is possible. ~ Fedor Emelianenko

When you have butterflies and you're feeling anxious and you have anxiety or are nervous, that's when you're most powerful... A lot of people, instead of honing this power and using it, they allow it to just consume them. There's another quote that says, 'A big challenge, a big pressure is like a fire, it's like a raging fire. Either you can allow this fire to consume you and just take you over completely, or you can gain control of this fire and harness it and you blow it right at your opponent, Dragonball Z style.' That's what I'm trying to do, trying to get my emotions under control and use this adrenaline to my advantage. ~ Jon Jones

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you. ~ Urijah Faber

Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude. ~ Conor McGregor

I don't work, I live ... I don't have a job, I just have a life. ~ Conor McGregor

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything ... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious. ~ Ronda Rousey

When you do things for the right reasons, eventually no matter how long it takes, people will take notice of it and can't help but respect it. ~ Gina Carano

If I didn't positive have people influencing my life in a positive way, I don't know where I'd be right now. So if I can do that just in one person's life, it's all worth it to me. ~ Mark Munoz

Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks. ~ Georges St-Pierre

When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious. ~ Georges St-Pierre

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be. ~ Georges St-Pierre

Life is a choice ... it's a choice to be successful. ~ Josh Thomson

The best I fight is when I'm just there being a competitor and enjoying myself. ~ Alexis Davis

There are many more kind people than not-so-kind people, said Mma Ramotswe. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Shit, a hillbilly ho' MMA reality show? It could've aired right after Buckwild. All you'd need is an above ground swimming pool - one of those fancy ones from Sears with the wrap around decking - and you'd have the perfect cracker coliseum. Who wouldn't pay to see a couple spitting-mad, big-haired Daisy-Dukes kick the shit out of each other while some good-old-boys drank themselves stupid cheering them on? ~ E.V. Iverson

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. ~ Dan Henderson

For me, and people like me, fighting isn't what we do; it's who we are. ~ Chael Sonnen

You're a black belt in the 1st round but sometimes you're a purple belt in the 5th. ~ Gilbert Melendez

People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life. ~ Mike Tyson

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. ~ Chogyam Trungpa

Your body can dictate your mind ... As I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence, my body take over my mind, and I become confident for real. ~ Georges St-Pierre

Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure. ~ Conor McGregor

I just think God put me on this earth as a tool ... showing people you can achieve stuff once you set you mind to things, that it can be accomplished. ~ Tito Ortiz

What makes you tough is your mindset and I believe anyone can be tough. ~ Rickson Gracie

Fighters have to be optimists. ~ Greg Jackson

The same thought ... crosses my mind whenever someone tells me there's something I can't do: Try Stopping Me. ~ Anthony Robles

You learn how to persevere ... to have discipline, you learn to lose, you learn to win, you learn how to not quit. ~ Ricardo Liborio

Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to death, I have a lot of doubts of myself, I'm afraid to fail, I'm afraid to be humiliated in front of everybody; but what happens, I act like it's impossible for me to fail and that my victory is a certainty. So as I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence my body takes over my mind and I become confident for real. As I'm walking I see the change in my mind and when I reach the Octagon I'm a different person, I'm very confident. ~ Georges St-Pierre

Discipline. Honour. Respect. This is why I appreciate MMA. ~ Houston Alexander

Being a great fighter is having a perfect balance of having that toughness, skill, as well as that mental capability to be able to out-think you opponent. ~ Rashad Evans

If you want something you have to will it into experience ~ Dominick Cruz

Do you want to buy a bloody flower or don't ye?
Aye. As a matter of fact I'll take the whole soddin' bunch.
Aye well, good. It's time you treated m'Ma better.
Oh, they're not for your Ma, son. These are for you.See because I'm gonnae ram them doon y'delicate bloody Karma hole! ~ Ian Pattison

I've been through a lot of ups and downs. Just willing to get back up and grind every day to try and get better. ~ Robbie Lawler

The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past. ~ Chuck Liddell

If I knew I was going to win, I probably wouldn't even fight. ~ Kron Gracie

You always have a second chance, as long as you believe you do and you try again, and stay positive and persistent and consistent. ~ Urijah Faber

Whether you want to be the best at your job, or at sports, just do your best. Give it everything you have. ~ Nick Newell

What feeds a fighters soul is victory. ~ Miesha Tate

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. ~ Clay Guida

However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none of them. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness. When surprised, take the enemy by surprise. ~ Sun Tzu

There's no ceiling ... just a continuation of improvement. ~ Chris Weidman

The NFL has gone a long way to Disney-fy its image, but it's not Disney. It's the MMA. It's a violent, brutal human war, with rules. The same guy who says, 'I'm going to rob everybody,' is the same guy who would be successful in the NFL. ~ Terry Crews

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. ~ Georges St-Pierre

It took me a while to realize that's just your body preparing you to do something. ~ Jesse Brock

Be honest and humble enough to learn from everybody. ~ Ricardo Liborio

The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them ~ Miyamoto Musashi

Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all. ~ Dominick Cruz

But remember, that for every cheating wife in Botswana, there are five hundred and fifty cheating husbands."
Mma Makutsi whistled. "That is an amazing figure," she said. "Where did you read that?"
"Nowhere," chuckled Mma Ramotswe. "I made it up. But that doesn't stop it from being true. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you're never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight. ~ Gina Carano

I will continue dedicating myself to MMA in 2015, but fighting in the ADCC interests me, yes.. The Jiu-Jitsu Worlds does not interest me, I see fighters with a different goal from mine. They want to hold your sleeve, grab you and wait for time to pass. They just want to stall the game. I do not see this as a real fight, I see only as a strategy to win. For me, Jiu-Jitsu is much more than that. ~ Kron Gracie

Dieting was cruel; it was an abuse of human rights. Yes, that's what it was, and she should not allow herself to be manipulated in this way. She stopped herself. Thinking like that was nothing more than coming up with excuses for breaking the diet. Mma Ramotswe was made of sterner stuff than that, and so she persisted. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

I don't want to lose ever. I don't want to lose at anything. I want to make weight faster than the guy that I'm fighting if we both go into the sauna at the same time. When we're doing interviews I want to have quicker wit so that I can make him feel stupid. I want to drink my water faster. And then when we get in the cage I want to beat him up. I don't think people really truly understand the extent that I go to try not to use. ~ Daniel Cormier

I was always pushed to do that much more, and in the long run that made me more of an MMA fighter. My mom always told me that if I let it go to the judges, I'd lost. There was no way I was going to win a decision, so I had to find ways to finish the fight fast. ~ Ronda Rousey

People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions. ~ Gina Carano

When someone is fearless, when pain isn't a factor, it's impossible to break his spirit. ~ Chuck Liddell

Mma Ramotswe had been understanding. Men who sired children and then failed to accept responsibility for them were anathema to her, and she reserved particular disapproval for those who then completely disappeared. She ~ Alexander McCall Smith

When it comes to fighting you shouldn't be thinking at all. You have to clear your mind and trust yourself completely. ~ Gunnar Nelson

When your purpose and your occupation is giving confidence to people, teaching self defense, giving empowerment, teaching a positive lifestyle to other people, you tend to emit that yourself because you want to live what you preach and you want to preach what you live, and I'm just trying to do my best. ~ Rener Gracie

He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known." "That is very well known," agreed Mma Ramotswe. "Look at Adam. Look how he fell for Eve." "Just because she had no clothes on, he fell for her," said Mma Makutsi. "That sometimes helps," said Mma Ramotswe. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

The lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do in your camp! ~ Walel Watson

No matter how much you might feed off negativity, a positive message is always stronger. ~ Urijah Faber

You can't be too comfortable. I have to keep pushing myself to be a better fighter every step of the way. ~ Alexander Gustafsson

Chapter Eleven

She did not spend long in the supermarket at Riverwalk, confining her purchases to supplies she would need for the next few days. There was beef for stew, a large pumpkin, a packet of beans, a dozen eggs, and two loaves of bread. The pumpkin looked delicious - almost perfectly round and deep yellow in colour, it sat on the passenger seat beside her so comfortably as she drove out of the car park, so pleased to be what it was, that she imagined conducting a conversation with it, telling it about the Orphan Farm and Mma Potokwane and her concerns over Mma Makutsi. And the pumpkin would remain silent, of course, but would somehow indicate that it knew what she was talking about, that there were similar issues in the world of pumpkins.

She smiled. There was no harm, she thought, in allowing your imagination to run away with you, as a child's will do, because the thoughts that came in that way could be a comfort, a relief in a world that could be both sad and serious. Why not imagine a talk with a pumpkin? Why not imagine going off for a drive with a friendly pumpkin, a companion who would not, after all, answer back; who would agree with everything you said, and would at the end of the day appear on your plate as a final gesture of friendship? Why not allow yourself a few minutes of imaginative silliness so that you could remember what it was like when you believed such things, when you were a child at the feet of your grandmother, listening t ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Any big task if you look at the grand picture ... it seems to big to accomplish, so just watch the footstep in front of you ... And that's what I do; try and win little battles every day. ~ Forrest Griffin

At the end of the day, I'm a human being. ~ Quinton Jackson

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler. ~ Georges St-Pierre

What is this?" she coughed out.

"All you're gonna get…or maybe not." The last bit was said in such a deep, throaty voice, she strained to catch it. It sounded naughty, like he was contemplating tangling his fingers into her hair, pulling her head back, and covering her mouth with his own. Oh sweet pirouette. She felt a little bit breathless at the idea. The booze didn't help.

Needing something to do with her hands besides reaching across the table and testing out his "maybe not," she fiddled with the hem of her sweater. Her cheeks warmed, nevertheless.
KNOCK OUT ~ Michele Mannon

Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they've gotten their ass kicked before. ~ Mike Tyson

Can't be touched, Can't be stopped, Can't be moved, Can't be rocked, Can't be shook. ~ Roy Jones Jr.

I keep having vivid dreams of success. Then it's time to sleep. ~ Conor McGregor

Happiness is realizing your dreams. ~ Mauricio Rua

Speed is the essence of war. ~ Conor McGregor

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average. ~ Mike Tyson

I'm used to being under pressure ... luckily I perform well under pressure. ~ Paige VanZant

Well," said Mma Ramotswe, "I have felt that anger. I felt it when I saw that the van had gone. I felt it a bit in the truck on the way back. But what is the point of anger now, Mma? I don't think that anger will help us." Mma Makutsi sighed. "You are right about anger," she said. "There is no point in it. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Whatever it is that you're passionate about, whatever it is that you absolutely love, and whatever it is that you would get up out of bed every day and do for free, you should try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot. ~ Dana White

I'm attracted to any type of endeavor that gives me the chance to express what's going on inside me. ~ Gina Carano

There was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe
the only lady private detective in Botwana
brewed tea. And three mugs
one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? ~ Alexander McCall Smith

You just have to realize that Jet Li is a movie star. He's great at what he does, but if he stepped into our world he wouldn't last long. ~ Chuck Liddell

They say if somebody has done something you want to do, all you need to do is go out and copy them. ~ Chael Sonnen

Wherever it goes is my best position. Wherever it goes I am comfortable. ~ Conor McGregor

Do not be ashamed to cry, Rra," said Mma Ramotswe. "It is the way that things begin to get better. It is the first step. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

I think it makes your stronger to admit that you're scared, because you're not scared to say that you're scared. ~ Georges St-Pierre

Her friend who treated her maid badly was not a wicked person. She behaved well towards her family ... but when it came to her maid ... she seemed to have little concern for her feelings. It occurred to Mma Ramotswe that such behaviour was no more than ignorance; an inability to understand the hopes and aspirations of others. Theat understanding ... was the beginning of all morality. If you knew how a person was feeling, if you could imagine yourself in her position, then surely it would be impossible to inflict further pain. Inflicting pain in such circumstances would be like hurting oneself. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Everything Happens For A Reason ~ Janelle R. Moore