I pulled some quotes from Loren Christensen's The Fighter's Fact Book that I thought were keen and thought I'd share them with y'all.
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide
"It takes courage to push youself to places you have never been before, to test your limits, to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin
"When danger approaches, sing to it." - Arab proverb
"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway." - John Wayne
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose one's self." - Soren Kierkegaard
"Come to the edge.
No, we will fall.
Come to the edge.
No, we will fall.
They came to the edge.
He pushed them, and they flew." - Guillaume Appolinaire
"Courage is reisitance to fear, mastery of fear - not abscence of fear." - Mark Twain
"Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway." - Robert Anthony
"Courage in not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon.
Here's a story at the end of the book that I will try to tell from memory. At the time, Mr. Christensen was training for his black belt in Modern Arnis with the late Prof. Remy Presas:
'The professor motioned me over. He put his hand on my shoulder and poked me in the chest and said, "Christensen," then he looked over his shoulder as if to see if anyone was listening, "If you train very hard..."
Christensen thought he was about to be exposed to some esoteric knowledge. He prepared to pledge that he would hold this knowledge secret and pass it on only to those he felt worthy.
"If you train very hard..." Again the professor looked around as if to check for eavesdroppers.
The anticipation drove Christensen mad, thinking If I train very hard...and?!
"...you will be very good."
That was it. Simple, and to the point. If you train very hard, you will be very good. '
Okay, enough babbling. The book has much more stuff in it. Check it out. I may do an actual review later.
Cthulhu
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide
"It takes courage to push youself to places you have never been before, to test your limits, to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin
"When danger approaches, sing to it." - Arab proverb
"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway." - John Wayne
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose one's self." - Soren Kierkegaard
"Come to the edge.
No, we will fall.
Come to the edge.
No, we will fall.
They came to the edge.
He pushed them, and they flew." - Guillaume Appolinaire
"Courage is reisitance to fear, mastery of fear - not abscence of fear." - Mark Twain
"Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway." - Robert Anthony
"Courage in not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon.
Here's a story at the end of the book that I will try to tell from memory. At the time, Mr. Christensen was training for his black belt in Modern Arnis with the late Prof. Remy Presas:
'The professor motioned me over. He put his hand on my shoulder and poked me in the chest and said, "Christensen," then he looked over his shoulder as if to see if anyone was listening, "If you train very hard..."
Christensen thought he was about to be exposed to some esoteric knowledge. He prepared to pledge that he would hold this knowledge secret and pass it on only to those he felt worthy.
"If you train very hard..." Again the professor looked around as if to check for eavesdroppers.
The anticipation drove Christensen mad, thinking If I train very hard...and?!
"...you will be very good."
That was it. Simple, and to the point. If you train very hard, you will be very good. '
Okay, enough babbling. The book has much more stuff in it. Check it out. I may do an actual review later.
Cthulhu
