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Chris Matakas

"Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place."

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"Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place."

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"Century was an occasional thing in cricket, Sachin made it frequent."

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"Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners."

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"Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL."

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"Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common."

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"Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens."

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"Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage."

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"Football has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."

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"With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential."

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"Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much."

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"We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity."
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"We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind."
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"There are no trophies for the real victories in life."
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"Jiu Jitsu gives me an ideal to strive toward. Technical mastery lies on an infinite continuum and completion of this skill is impossible. Every time I train I have something that I can improve upon, and this will hold true for each and every training session that lies between me and my grave."
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"Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes."
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"After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming."
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"Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity."
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"I wanted to get to the most essential aspect of my being, and look around for a while. I wanted to explore what I am in my most basic self. I wanted to chip away at all of the nonsense I have acquired through my twenty-nine years on this earth. I wanted to find truth. Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats. Jiu Jitsu has peeled the veil of daily life, and has shown me what lies beyond the curtain. We willingly accept the chains that circumstance forces upon us, and we grow to find comfort in them. We attach various fetters of day-to-day living to our being, and we do so with a smile. We accept these constraints for they come in the way of comfort. We accept conformity for it appears the path of least resistance. We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves."
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"The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance."
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