Taisen Deshimaru Quotes

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the mind.

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.

I like to step into the Octagon and just show what I'm made of.

Wrestling has made me very mentally strong, conditioned me really well for MMA, and given me phenomenal balance.

Everyone at home sitting on their couches, they think it's so easy to fight. Stepping inside that cage is probably the hardest thing in the world to do. I truly believe that.

I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It's all mental. It's what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It's incredible.

Being a great fighter is having a perfect balance of having that toughness, skill, as well as that mental capability to be able to out-think you opponent.

I honestly believe that with a strong mind, you can literally 'will' the ball into the hole.

I got so strong I felt like a giant.....When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating.

I'm a completely evolved fighter.

I'm lucky that my best strength as a wrestler has always been my brain.

Everyone has 4 ounce gloves on, and they're big boys, and they can throw hard.

I got thrown into the lion's den when I got to Alpha Male. My first sparring session was with Joe Benavidez, Chad Mendes and those guys, just bleeding from my face, its not like they took it easy on me. It was one of those things where we sparred 3-4 days a week, and we got thrown in there and that's what made me as tough as I am.

Junior Dos Santos is one of the best heavyweight fighters of all time, and he has proven it by being a champion. That is something that I want to be in my career, and I understand to achieve that, I have to beat guys like him.

I think the elements to shock the world is either the ability to wrestle and grind somebody out or the ability to knock someone out.

For me, it's all about training and fighting. I would rather do without the attention, but I know it comes with the territory.

I don't have any ill will towards any of my opponents. I understand we are the highest calibre of athlete in this sport, and we will both go and give it our all. But I don't want anyone to misinterpret what I am saying: when we step into that octagon and we touch gloves, I am going to break his face.

When you fight in the UFC and train with the guys that I train with, you learn that there is always still a lot of work to do.

Whatever the fighting is - boxing, fighting, Judo, Thai boxing, it's how much you know doing that. Some people just know how some people move.

A real man's weapon is his mind.

Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.

I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food-then only will the mind be strong.

A strong body makes the mind strong.