Jonathan Tucker Quotes

I love to fight. I love the preparation. I love to learn new things, always overcoming myself.

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

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.

The fight game has never been just about winning.

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.

To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.

It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.

The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.

Fighting is life... Are you a person who gives up or are you a person who's going to fight?

I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That's all there is to me.

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

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

When you've something to fight for, you get the best out of yourself.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

You can always be stronger.

So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?

From the vertigo, I found out how far I can push myself physically and also mentally.