Holly Holm Sayings

#1. No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.

Orrin Woodward

#2. A rematch is one of those things that will always be there when you remove a champion, and it's something you definitely need to give them - that chance for a rematch. That's the only way to do it.

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#3. We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.

Theodore Roosevelt

#4. Aim high and don't sell yourself short. Know that you're capable. Understand that a lot of people battle with a lot of things - depression, body image or whatever else - so know that it's not just you. You're not alone.

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#5. At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.

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#6. Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don't want to waste time on drama beforehand.

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#7. There's days in training where everything flows and days in training where they don't. You just pray that doesn't happen the night of the fight.

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#8. It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

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#9. I can't even explain how blessed I am and how fortunate that I have such a great team that believes in me.

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#10. A fighter can always recover, and you never know what they're going to come back with.

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#11. They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

Jodi Picoult

#12. Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Peter Drucker

#13. People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

John Darnielle

#14. Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

Napoleon Hill

#15. I'd see people being really successful, whether it was my teammates or big-name fighters like Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, and I'd think, 'I want to be a legend like that.'

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#16. Many wealthy people donate, and while the skeptical may claim that they do so for tax breaks, there is another reason involved ... as a spiritual practice.

Stephen Richards

#17. I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much.

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#18. I'm going to hit you as hard as I can regardless of whether you touch my gloves or not.

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#19. I still have a lot to learn, and I still have a lot to prove.

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#20. When people are self-entitled for no reason, just with anything, that bothers me. It's like waiting for someone to cross the road, and they walk slower because they know you're waiting. I like all the credit due in the places that it's supposed to be due.

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#21. I have MMA strengths, but I need to build on my weaknesses.

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#22. They'd even made him imitate the different patterns of the bells. A necessity, but he'd felt like a fool chanting, Bing bong bing bing bong. No, wait, bing bing bong bing bing.

Leigh Bardugo

#23. Life isn't measured in minutes, but in heartbeats.

Joan Lowery Nixon

#24. There is a point beyond which the human brain loses its kinship with the Infinite and becomes a mere seething mass of deleterious passions. Malays,

P.G. Wodehouse

#25. There's a ton of nerves for every fight I've been in; it doesn't matter if it was my debut.

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#26. There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

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#27. When I don't have a fight scheduled, training is even more fun. I can come into the gym and work on stuff that isn't generated for a specific game plan. I can just play around with it and have a good time. I never want to get to the point where I'm sick of it.

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#28. I started doing MMA and boxing at the same time - I always wanted to try an MMA fight to see what it was like. I had one fight, and I was hooked.

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#29. She has these strange gray eyes that let me see all the way back to when her scorn shaped men's lives.

Greg Bear

#30. I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels.

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#31. I think sometimes in life we rush and only later look back and say, 'Wow, that was something pretty cool that I did,' and we realize we should have been more aware while it was happening.

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#32. We have far too many ways to interpret past events for our own good.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#33. It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

Swami Vivekananda

#34. I know there's a lot of emotion going into a fight, but everything in a fight - none of it comes out of an evil heart.

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#35. There's a lot of criticism in this job and what we do. It's in front of everybody and for everybody to have their own opinion about what we do. Don't be in this position if you can't handle that criticism.

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#36. I just want to be a fighter. I just like to win fights.

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#37. I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

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