Robbie Lawler Quotes

#1. I just try to keep getting better every day, and that's all I can do.

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#2. She'd majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.

Rainbow Rowell

#3. I also watched boxing all the time and Tuesday Night Fights on USA and just kept hitting my heavy back in the garage.

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#4. I did a lot of smoker fights and fought pretty much every week since Pat wouldn't let me fight until he was sure I was ready. I was also boxing and so I had 30 unofficial fights or more of those.

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#5. A lot of military kids make a lot of moves but I only made the one, so it wasn't really an issue for me.

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#6. I'd always done martial arts I was always interested in fighting.

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#7. I did start wrestling after I moved to Iowa, I think in the seventh grade. It's really a part of the Iowa culture so it's hard not to do it if you like sports.

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#8. We've done this before in other worlds, in other lives. It is our strength, law, medicine, entertainment, and computers, the networking of energy. All of these are arts.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Myself, I'm a pothead. It's no secret. Everyone knows that. I go on the road and forget everything else

Method Man

#10. It's all about getting better and controlling the things that you can control, which is getting better day to day.

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#11. I had never thought about being a professional fighter but meeting Pat [ Militich ] and the guys just pushed me in that direction.

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#12. I don't need to do all the trash talking. I try to do it with my fists, my knees, and my feet.

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#13. I did takwondo from the time I was pretty young and also played I did taekwondo for martial arts and then also played football, baseball, and basketball against older kids because of my brother being older. I learned pretty quickly to not be intimidated and to not back down.

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#14. My parents were divorced and my dad was in the Marines. I lived in California until I was 10 then we moved to Bettendorf, Iowa when I was in the fourth grade. I had an older brother so it made it a little easier to adjust to things.

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#15. Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light ... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

Amy Grant

#16. You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.

George Peppard

#17. It's about being able to go through the grind, willing to get back up when you're knocked down. And when life's not going well, not getting down on yourself and just getting back up and getting back to work, and striving to be the best you can be.

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#18. The image isn't just created with the camera. That's just part one. The editor gets an imprint. The colorist does something to it. Visual effects does something to it. It's not just what you capture that people are going to see. The image gets made in many ways. In production and then in post.

Christopher Kenneally

#19. You really can't worry about stuff you can't control ... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.

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#20. I am protected, shaped and built by what is outside, what they made of me, but also by what is inside, what I made of myself.

Ally Condie

#21. That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain:
At least I am sure, it may be so in Denmark:

William Shakespeare

#22. The sport in 2000 wasn't as big as it is now [in 2008].

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#23. You don't really realize the effect those things have on you when you're growing up but then when you look back you can see how they molded you.

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#24. I've been through a lot of ups and downs. Just willing to get back up and grind every day to try and get better.

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#25. Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

Richard Russo

#26. I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around.

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#27. I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'

Bruno Mars

#28. I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.

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#29. What I've learned from those losses ... Priceless.

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#30. Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.

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#31. Get back up when you're knocked down.

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#32. I just started training with the best fighters in the world trying to get better. I was a pretty good athlete so I did pretty well with the team and that gave me confidence that I would be able to compete with people.

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#33. I lived in Iowa for pretty much the rest of my life, but I just moved to St. Louis and opened up a gym and MMA training center.

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#34. It's about falling down and getting back up.

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