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“People could connect with me... I think the appeal was that, "Here he is, he's just a normal guy like us, and he's giving it his all".” quote by B.J. Penn — Download Open image

“People could connect with me... I think the appeal was that, "Here he is, he's just a normal guy like us, and he's giving it his all".”

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Fighting is pure chaos, and to be a good fighter you simply have to be prepared mentally and physically to handle that chaos.

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I just want to be known as the greatest everis that too much to ask?

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It comes down to having fun and doing what I love.

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Birds fly and fish swim and I do this.

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Just try to give as much as you can through your daily life to yourself and the people around you.

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I always gave it the best shot I had, whether it went my way or not that night.

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It's not a certain technique, it's not a skillit's all in your mind, it's how far you want to go

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You're going to fall, but you got to stand.

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You can't make everyone happy no matter what. All I can do is live my life and try to be successful and please myself.…

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I don't worry about losing all my fans. Whatever true fans you've got will stick by you, so that's nothing to worry about

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Everybody has questioned my heart, questioned my training ethics, this and that, but I never did something as cowardly as to take any sports-enhancement…

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If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has…

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It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God…

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I liked wrestling a lot better than boxing. I remember thinking at that time that wrestling was a pure demonstration of strength, which I…

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As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the…

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The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles, faces and ridges, Is it the name itself which is so tempting, or the picture we have of the mountain itself, or does the appeal come from our feeling of the actual process of climbing? All…

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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

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