When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

I swam underwater for 50 meters at a time and walked the length of the pool underwater, with a brick in each hand, all on a single breath.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

I’m going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I’m going to change the game. I’m going to change the way people approach fighting.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

They say cats have nine lives. I’ve had 12 already and I don’t know how many more I’ll have.