I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fighting is kind of like choreography. It's not just get in there and punching someone: you have to have choreography. Someone is going to hit high; someone is going to hit at the bottom.
When you have a fighter willing to do that, when he is seriously hurt and in pain but still fights, you've got a dangerous man on your hands.
It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.
If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.
I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.
I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.
How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
No opposing quotes found.