Robert Whittaker Quotes

Coming from a standing background in striking, I couldn't catch up to the guys with 20-plus years of training on the ground. I had to learn submissions. I found out it wasn't an easy road. I had six losses in a row, but I still felt I was the best fighter in the world.

Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.

In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

There are five great ages of man - five moments when you need to reevaluate everything, clear out the cupboard and the wardrobe, and most importantly, your head. They are 13, 20, 30, 40 and 60. All men need to know this.

You go through pain. You feel uncomfortable, uncomfortable, uncomfortable until you change. I acquired a different outlook.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

There's nothing wrong in starting all over again and taking it step-by-step.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

It's not always caving to pressure: Sometimes criticism hits close to home; sometimes criticism changes our minds about something we've put out into the world.

Every year is different. I always try to evolve, get better and find different areas and training that can benefit me.

You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.

You have to break yourself down to rebuild yourself stronger.

At times when you transform yourself and when you've opened too much, you tend to doubt how you're going to face it, how you're going to react to a situation, so it's important that you believe yourself.

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

You can't go back. Once it's done, it's done. I'm sure there will be things that I would love to change, in the future, but each movie is a snapshot of its time and the resources, and you do your best on it.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.