Thucydides Quotes

Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.

I'm all about getting the training. Don't roll out of bed and say, 'I can do this.'

If you ask a soldier what is the key to this confidence, they will likely answer their discipline and their training.

I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.

I don't really think about the degree of difficulty or the possibility of making a mistake. I just try to relax and let my preparation and training take over.

When you're a fighter, you have to be ready all the time. There's no 'I need a month.' It's always time.

I'm an excellent soldier and a good strategist. I love to fight.

I'd always been a very focused dancer and very protected.

If you want to be a good shooter, you've got to shoot.

Granddad taught me a long time ago, act like you've been there before.

You do your best with the realization that nothing gets you in ring-shape better than being in the ring.

Truthfully, what we do in training is 10 times harder than what we ever have to do in a competition.

If you are not fighting and not training, it does have an effect on you no matter who you are.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

The advise my dad gave me: "To know is to study." Get some training under your belt, so that nobody what somebody asks you to do, you know how to handle it accordingly. I learned so much while working, because I developed a solid work ethic in school. Whereas, a lot of my friends had no work ethic; and because of that, they're sitting at home today.

I think I was unprepared for war.

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.

Just stay ready. Stay in shape and then you don't have to rush to train before the movie starts. I'll show you my abs later because I’m in shape. But that idea, if you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.

There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.

Nothing's dangerous if you know what you're doing.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

What you practice on the mat is what you end up doing in your life.

Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

Excellent soldiers are not furious.