Rich Franklin's advice to young MMA fighters

Rich Franklin has a great quote about how fighters should have a bit of amnesia when it comes to their losses and wins. Sometimes you can get an inflated sense of self and comfortfrom a win that can make you rest on your laurels, and when you lose you can let that overwhelm you negatively. For Rich, a certain level of forgetfulness is key to success:

I always talk to young fighters about this that lose and stuff...You have to have like a bit of amnesia both on the winning side and the losing side of this thing...On the losing side you need to be able to forget a loss to be able to move on and to be successful in your next fight. But on the winning side you need to be able to forget a win so you don't get stuck in this pattern of like, "I'm unstoppable". So there has to be a level of amnesia for a fighter.

Conor McGregor motivational words for fighters

Conor McGregor on believing in yourself and showing up at the gym:

Keep believing in your ability, believe in your shot, believe in your move, and show up at the gym. It is a recipe for success that cannot be stopped.

Nick "The Tooth" on not taking things so seriously

Nick "The Tooth" Gullo speaks on not losing the fun of life by taking things too seriously:

My approach to life is always just don't take yourself so seriously, and don't take life so seriously. It's not that serious.

Mark Munoz on leadership

 

 

UFC middleweight Mark Munoz on his viewpoint on being a leader. He takes a holistic approach in trying to lead others in every realm of life and do so via setting a great example as a human being:

 

What it means to be a good leader is to lead by example...Your actions speak louder than your words...For me, what it means to be able to lead other people is to be able to impact them in a positive way: mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically.

Georges St-Pierre on being a Samurai

Frank Shamrock on Following the Warrior's Code

 

Frank Shamrock on the code of the warrior:

All my life, following the warrior's code has taken me to places I was afraid to go. But always when I got there I was glad I made the journey

Tim Kennedy on kids learning from training

UFC middleweight Tim Kennedy speaks on the positives learned from mixed martial arts training.

Ronda Rousey: You're training to be the best in the world on your worst day

Ronda Rousey's mother had a great line which she fed to her daughter when she was coming up in Judo:

One of my mom's best lines is...You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.

Michael McDonald on loving MMA

Renzo Gracie on knowing himself truly and completely

Since competing in MMA makes you learn so much about yourself, Renzo Gracie has used it as a path of self-discovery:

"I will die shitting on my pants like everybody else, but knowing who I was...Knowing for sure and truly who I was."

Chris Weidman on hard work and luck

Chris Weidman on hard work:

I believe that when preparation meets opportunity, I guess that's what you consider luck; so it's just hard work.