Houston Alexander famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Discipline. Honour. Respect. This is why I appreciate MMA.
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My goal is to win the belt, whoever it's on. I'm not gonna settle for anything less.
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Of course I want to test myself. I enjoy fighting. But I also have six kids, and I want them to go to college. I hope that I can reach a point where I get the best of both worlds.
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Rankings don't mean much to me because they can change after one fight. I just hope that I've at least gotten respect. A respect ranking is all I want.
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I grew up in East St. Louis so I wanted to play baseball as a kid. Then I moved to Nebraska and became a football fan and wanted to play football. But I've always been fighting. Growing up in East St. Louis was hard. You had to fight there.
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I think every [fighting] style has the same core. It's all about changing and positioning, transitions.
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Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff.
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One reason why I started fighting was because of my family, and with that, you gotta pay the bills, but I enjoy beating people up in the first place, you know, so it plays hand in hand. Beating up, and getting money!
-- Houston Alexander
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Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
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The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
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We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
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The only thing I have to lose going into this fight is anxiety, fear, worry; all those kinds of negativity.
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I know that when I get in there and I leave that cage I will leave with more than I came in.
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Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe – the only lady private detective in Botswana – brewed redbush tea. And three mugs – one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.
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As much as a disappointment this was, I can only learn from it and become a better fighter.
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The best I fight is when I'm just there being a competitor and enjoying myself.
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I don't think I'm better than anyone; I just like to prove to myself that things I imagine can be done.
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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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