Harold Kushner Quotes

People think this is all about the top players hitting tenins balls and they talk about technique and strategy and how important that is. But they don't understand the essence of competition. This is one-on-one, two players out there fighting each other with everything they have, trying to bring the best out of themselves. And the difference at this level of the game is all in the head and in the heart.

Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable.

If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

I just fought with all my heart. I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.

I will do my best, and I promise I will give this guy a fight, and I have to win this fight.

To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.

I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

Ain't no mountain that I can't climb, baby

I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.

Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.

When you think, you think in terms of your culture.

If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency.

Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.

When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.

I love the training, love the competition, and I still feel like I'm progressing and getting better as a fighter.

Right on through today, my lungs and stamina are my engine. I'm not nearly the strongest guy or the most flexible, but I can definitely sustain pace on the mountain.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it!

I used to be a cheerleader, but fighting just seemed more, "me". So I went that route.

I do not lose; I just do not get decisions sometimes. You lose when you quit. I have never quit. When it comes down to a decision, judges make a decision as to which fighter they want to win the fight. I have always been able to survive no matter whom they decide to give the fight to.

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

Russell Wilson has got a tremendous competitive mindset and it stems from the confidence that he feels based on the preparation that he puts in.

Victory Consistently, train all year to be the enemy's misery!