Gambitta's Gym
UNLEASHING POTENTIAL → ELEVATING PERFORMANCE
Inspirations
“…To live is to express one’s self freely in creation. Creation, I must say, is not a fixed something or a solidification.”
- Bruce Lee
“To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.”
- Bruce Lee
“To me, all type[s] of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge.”
- Bruce Lee
“True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself - the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.”
- Bruce Lee
“If it’s pure gold, it will not fear the test of fire.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
- Albert Einstein
“What is now proved was once imagined.”
- William Blake
“Begin with the end in mind.”
- Stephen Covey
“The mind always moves in the direction of our dominant thoughts.”
“If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible.”
- Bruce Lee
“It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
- Muhammad Ali
“If you do not act upon what you believe, you do not have a belief at all; you merely have an opinion. Many of us are saturated and even supersaturated with opinions. But these are not our beliefs; and we do not have the courage to act.”
- Benjamin Mays
“There can be no knowledge with emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.”
- Arnold Bennett
“People’s comments to us are often more projections than reflections, projecting the concerns and character weaknesses of people giving the input rather than accurately reflecting what we are.”
- Stephen Covey
“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision.”
- Muhammad Ali
“With great victory, comes great sacrifice.”
“Do not mistake the improbable for the impossible.”
“ Never doubt what nobody is sure of.”
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
- Albert Einstein
“There are different approaches, but each person must not be limited to one approach. We must approach it with our own self, for art is the expression of one’s own self…”
- Bruce Lee
“My truth will not be your truth.”
- Bruce Lee
“There is no prescribed Way for everyone. There is just your Way for Now - until you choose another.”
- Rusty Berkus
“Art lives where absolute freedom is.”
- Bruce Lee
“In the landscape of spring, there is neither better nor worse. The flowering buds grow, some short, some long.”
- Zen saying
“There is no one to compare yourself to, and no one to compete with. There never was. When the Rose and Lotus are side by side, is one more beautiful than the other?”
- Rusty Berkus
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte
“Bahala Na.”
- Grandmaster Leo Giron
“To win, all I have to do is suffer.”
- Muhammad Ali
“I train harder every day of my life than you will ever train one day in your life.”
- Alexander Karelin
“While my opponent rests I train; while he trains, I train harder.”
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”
- Steve Prefontaine
“Anyone - Anywhere - Anytime”
“There is no tomorrow!”
- Apollo Creed
“Remember. Time waits for no one.”
- Ajarn Chai
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
- Henry S. Haskins
“The daughter of a lion is also a lion.”
- African proverb
“Are you a victim of circumstance or a master of fate?”
“Adapt or die!”
“One must not hesitate to innovate or change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.”
- Vince Lombardi
“Knowing is not enough. We must apply.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Life is movement”
- Eugene Sandow
“The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness. Only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.”
- Bruce Lee
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.”
- N.Y. Times ad, (1939)
“It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.”
- Charles Darwin
“Not everything that counts can be counted. And not everything that can be counted counts.”
- Albert Einstein
“What matters is what you can and cannot do.”
“Talk is cheap. Let’s go play.”
- Johnny Unitas
“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”
- Vince Lombardi
“If you cheated during your roadwork in that dark of the morning, you’re getting found out now under the bright lights.”
- Joe Frazier
“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
- Rosa Parks
“Play every game like it’s the last one you’ll ever play.”
“Head - Heart - Hustle”
“It is not a failure to try and fail. You have only failed when you try and fail and fail to try again.”
“The meaning of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
- Johannes Jacobus van der Leeuw
“One sees clearly only with the heart.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“We think too much and feel too little.”
- Charlie Chaplin
“We seek not to imitate the masters; rather we seek what they sought.”
“Por sangre, no; por corazón, si.”
“Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson