"No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me." —Eric Thomas

"You cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of your life; at some point, you have to unleash the potential and make your move." -Eric Thomas (Hip Hop Preacher)

 

"If you're going to be in pain, get something out of it." -Eric Thomas

"If you can outlast pain...on the other side of it is success." -Eric Thomas, Hip Hop Preacher

You got to have a "Why". You've got to have a reason for why you do what you do. -Eric Thomas (Hip Hop Preacher)

 

The Hip Hop preacher Eric Thomas, who also addressed Anthony "Showtime" Pettis and others at Roufusport gym here:



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Quotes from MMA fighters:

Anderson Silva
Chael Sonnen
Chris Weidman
Fedor Emelianenko
Georges St-Pierre
Jon Jones
Ronda Rousey

Hip Hop Preacher speaks to Anthony Pettis and rest of Roufusport

Eric Thomas, AKA the Hip Hop Preacher, speaks passionatesly to UFC fighters Anthony Pettis and Erik Koch as well as the rest of the team at Roufusport MMA gym:

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breath, is a mentality. Is a way of life. It's how you eat, how you think, how you sleep, how you dream. When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, it's not some philosophy or some idea, it's what I breathe as life. And so what I need you to understand is guys, when you talk about being the best of the best; like when you talk about being in a sport where at the end of the day the way you win is somebody got to surrender. You're talking about two grown people...somebody got to surrender; you're talk about will now. You're talking about heart now. You're not talking physicality, you're not talking about how you look, you're not talking about how strong you are, you're not talking about how tall you are, how fit you are, you're talking about will. You're talking about when you get to the point where it's two people and somebody got to tap out before the other person taps out. Will. Heart. And so it is a mentality. The thing I love about Michael Jordan when Michael Jordan played. Michael Jordan had the flu and he still put up 38 points. He played every single minute; took a break and got some Gatorade and came back. Got some water, came back. Because he understood, "I got to want this thing and I can't take a day off." Like, "If I don't play this playoff game, there might not be another playoff game." 

...And when you want it as bad as you want to breathe...I'm willing to make any sacrifice, I'm willing to go through any pain, I'm willing to go through any suffering, I'm willing to go through whatever it takes so when I get in there and it's me and him one on one, that I guarantee you at the end of it I won't be the one that surrender.

...Vince Lombard said, "The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender".

Hip Hop Preacher on Success

Eric Thomas, the Hip Hop Preacher, said the following to Duke Roufus' gym, which is the home of Anthony Pettis:

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, it's not some philosophy or some idea, it's what I breathe!