Callum Smith Quotes

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

I have a talent for coming up with an analogy about martial arts training for everything. It's because training to improve your martial arts skills and training to step into a cage and fight another person teaches you a lot about... everything.

Get your mind right, get your spirit right, and get your body right. And keep it there. That requires working out; that requires fasting, eating well, prayer, and getting to know who you are. And not bending.

I just really work hard on myself every day.

When I was not doing well, I was just focussing on my processes. And when I am doing well, I am still focussing on my processes.

For many years, taking care of myself consisted of showering and showing up to work on time. Sleeping and eating were inconveniences at best.

Training should be tough, it should challenge you, because that's how you improve.

I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system.

Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

I love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn't exist without therapy.

I'm not some crazy party animal. That's OK. If you say you want to be the best, you have to do what the best do - train, research, eat right, take care of yourself, and be. Don't pretend.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

I'm gonna have to develop myself. I'm just going to do the best that I can do.

Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.

There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I'm a martial artist. I don't train for a fight. I train for myself. I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

My life is training.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

A lot of people out there get hounded about things that are going on in their lives. You just find ways to handle it and go on about your business.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

I focus on myself, and I train for myself.

When I'm feeling comfortable at home, confident in my day-to-day, being healthy and being the best person I can be, MMA is easy.