“It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.”
― The Fighter's Mind: Inside the Mental Game
― The Fighter's Mind: Inside the Mental Game
“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.”
― A Fighter's Heart: One man's journey through the world of fighting
― A Fighter's Heart: One man's journey through the world of fighting
“sometimes we screw up, and sometimes the system screws with us, but if you live your life with enough passion and boldness, then that’s what you’ll be remembered for. Not the crap that happened along the way.”
― The Measure
― The Measure
“He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.”
― Shutter Island
― Shutter Island
“Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.”
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