John Keegan Quotes

That takes it out of you, throwing too many punches.

Obviously, I can't break my mental block in the Octagon.

I think really one of the hardest things for me always was just the walk to the ring.

The most exciting fight I have called on HBO was the first meeting between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward. When I stood up to do the post-fight on camera, my stomach muscles were tight and sore from the tension of watching them take their lives into their hands and trade shots.

I would say off the cuff that I am an anxious person. I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I tend to live in a state of anxiety with the feeling that life is some kind of great catastrophe.

The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.

It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.

Anger, hatred, fear, is very bad for our health

There are no other factors that cause me stress when I get inside the Octagon. I guess that's an advantage of getting older.

So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

One thing that I'd just remind young people of is that when John Lewis, who's a member of Congress today, defied George Wallace and led the march from Selma to Montgomery, he was 23 years old. Martin Luther King was the old man in the bunch, and he was 35, so young people need to know that they've always been an important part of our society, have always been at the forefront of pushing for a more just America, and we can't be successful without the impatience, the vigor that young people bring to the fight for social justice.

What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we're-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT'S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous but true. Scary but true.

Anybody who's really successful has doubts.

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.

The only time I flip out is when I'm not prepared. If I'm caught off guard, I can't help it; I start gasping for air.

All our anxieties relate to time.

Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

If it makes you feel any better, you’re not as bad as Keith. He was here earlier today and was so nervous, he literally kept looking over his shoulder.” Lee paused thoughtfully. “I think it might have been because Adrian kept laughing like a mad scientist at those old black-and-white movies he was watching.

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?

The true warrior isn't immune to fear. She fights in spite of it.

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