These quotes all had a prefound impact on my way of thinking. Below, I share my story with each of these quotes. I hope some of these stick with you.

“Create for yourself” - Rick Rubin[^1]

“It’s just math, show up every single day” - Kobe[^2]

“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life” - Arthur Ashe[^3]

“Those who are numb to fear are first to die” - Makoto Yukimura (Vinland Saga)[^4]

“If the difference is the racket, then it ain’t you” - Solia Valentine[^5]

“Ever tried, ever failed, no matter, try again, fail again, fail better” - Stan Wawrinka[^6]

“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say” - Shakespeare[^7]

“Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they are and not as you wish them to be” - Nadal[^8]

“Failure isn’t falling, it’s staying down” - Miss Andrew[^9]

“Be like water, my friend” - Bruce Lee[^10]

“If he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who never knew neither victory nor defeat” - Theodore Roosevelt[^11]

“Stand and fight!” - Yasuhisa Hara[^12]

“Adversity does not build character, it reveals it” - James Lane Allen[^13]

“Pressure is a privelage” - Peyton Manning[^14]

“Everybody’s gotta live,
Before you know the reason why” - Arthur Lee[^15]

“To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well” - Miyamoto Musashi[^16]

“You should not copy others, but use weapons which you can handle properly” - Miyamoto Musashi[^17]

“You are not special because of who you are but what you do” - Toni Nadal[^18]

“The distance of a desperately moving snail is easily dwarfed of a running dog” - Takehiko Inou (REAL)[^19]

“The Three C’s: Cabeza, Corazón, Cojones” - Carlos Alcaraz[^20]



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