Sam Sheridan > Quotes

“It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.”
― Sam Sheridan, The Fighter's Mind: Inside the Mental Game

“Fighting is a way to force something to happen.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“Bullfight critics, ranked in rows, Crowd the enormous plaza full. But only one is there who knows, And he’s the man that fights the bull.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One man's journey through the world of fighting

“If you had a yard as a child, you probably remember it with a startling intimacy. You knew that yard: every inch, every bush, each step on the tree you could climb, the whorls and knots in the branches, the bare dirt spots, the sandy gravel, the soft grass. It was deep, profound, intimate local knowledge. You intuitively knew what was happening around you at all times. Primitive man would have felt that way about a much larger stretch of ground, but it was still "his" territory. This very ability is really what allowed Homo sapiens to expand and succeed the way he did.”
― Sam Sheridan, The Disaster Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse

“Push on when you think you can't, and next time that moment will come later”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“Don't let it be anxiety; let that uncertainty generate excitement. If you can't make that switch you shouldn't be a writer, or an artist, or a fighter. You won't enjoy it.”
― Sam Sheridan, The Fighter's Mind: Inside the Mental Game

“Somebody asked me if I am looking for something. I am looking for everything”
― Sam Sheridan

“if zombies eat a family member, you're gonna dissociate”
― Sam Sheridan, The Disaster Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse

“So yes, get prepared, but don't "be first"—don't start talking about *us* and *them* already, because then you're making *them* into the *other*, and that's when the shooting starts. Far too many of the survival books I've read go there, way too early. You're becoming part of the problem; you're not the hero, you're the bad guy. It's all *us*.”
― Sam Sheridan, The Disaster Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse

“But I fell back on those immortal words at the base of all good decision making: Fuck it.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“Fighting is a way to feel, an anti–video game, a way to force some-thing to happen. That’s what brought me back to it, because when I’ve fought someone, I know something has happened. How many days of your life pass you by that you could take or leave? When nothing really happened?”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“A pet peeve of mine is when fans start griping about a fighter who lost making excuses. Of course he’s making excuses. This is his profession, he’s going to get back in there, and for his sanity and mental strength he needs to have a reason he can point to for his loss. If he didn’t make excuses, if he didn’t have a reason to think he can win next time, how could he ever fight again?”
― Sam Sheridan, The Fighter's Mind

“Somebody asked me if I was looking for something. I am looking for everything.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“After the season, I applied for a position with the North Cascades smoke jumpers in Washington State and got a new tattoo on my left forearm, a tattoo of my life, with the motto “Mundis Ex Igne Factus Est,” which means “The World Is Made of Fire” in Latin, a quote from a Helprin book (A Soldier in the Great War) that I had read maybe five years earlier. It captured the idea that life is born of struggle and striving, that true joy and understanding do not come from comfort and safety; they come from epiphany born in exhaustion (and not exhaustion for its own sake). Safety and comfort are mortal danger to the soul.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“Exhausted and feverishly hot, I would burrow into bed, my body aching. I dreamt strange dreams and punched in my sleep.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“faddism”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“This was the feeling I was after. My adrenal glands were triggered and I was fully engaged in the moment: Someone was trying to kill me. The door opened on a new world.”
― Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

“Victory awaits him who has everything in order—luck, people call it.”
― Sam Sheridan, The Disaster Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse