A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of FightingGrove/Atlantic, Inc., 19/02/2008 - 320 páginas This “whirling, no-holds-barred,” national bestselling memoir of mixed martial arts by the author of The Fighter’s Mind is “adrenaline-addled and addictive” (Playboy). In A Fighter’s Heart, former merchant marine and Harvard graduate Sam Sheridan shares a “fascinating” first-person account of his life inside the world of professional MMA fighting “and his behind-the-scenes access makes for a gripping read” (Sara Cardace, The Washington Post). In 1999, after a series of adventurous jobs—construction at the South Pole, ranching in Montana, and sailing private yachts around the world—Sheridan found himself in Australia with time to finally indulge a long-dormant obsession: fighting. After training in Bangkok at the legendary Fairtex Gym, Sheridan stepped through the ropes for a professional bout, embarking on an epic journey to discover what only a fighter can know about fear, violence, and most of all, himself. From small-town Iowa to the beaches of Rio, from the streets of Oakland to the arenas of Tokyo, Sheridan trained, traveled, and fought with Olympic boxers, Brazilian jiu-jitsu stars, and Ultimate Fighting champions. This chronicle offers an insightful look at violence as a spectator sport, as well as a dizzying account of what it’s like to hit—and be hit by—some of the best fighters in the world. |
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Secção 2_ | 41 |
Secção 3_ | 88 |
Secção 4_ | 89 |
Secção 5_ | 143 |
Secção 6_ | 155 |
Secção 7_ | 223 |
Secção 8_ | 243 |
Secção 9_ | 267 |
Secção 10_ | 291 |
Secção 11_ | 303 |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 158 - The weakest things in the world can overmatch the strongest things in the world. Nothing in the world can be compared to water for its weak and yielding nature; yet in attacking the hard and the strong nothing proves better than it. For there is no alternative to it.
Página 64 - human nature" was indeed laid down during the 21A million years or so when Homo lived in small bands and depended on wild animals and plants for food. But it is my contention that our peculiar and ambivalent relationship to violence is rooted in a primordial experience that we have managed, as a species, to almost entirely repress. And this is the experience, not of hunting, but of being preyed on by animals that were initially far more skillful hunters than ourselves. In particular, the sacralization...
Página 172 - It takes constant effort to keep the slippery, naked, nearformless fact of hitting swaddled in layers of sense and form. Because hitting wants to shake off all encumbering import and just be hitting, because boxing incompletely frames elemental chaos, the capacity of the fights to mean is rivaled by their incapacity to mean anything at all.
Página 210 - The warrior syndrome: ... the tendency of some deadgame fighters with sound boxing skills to abandon technique, shapeshifting lycanthropically into brawlers who win exciting fights and inspire the fans' love by accepting several doozies on the kisser in order to deliver one of their own. In the long run, those fighters lose more...
Página 210 - ... love by accepting several doozies on the kisser in order to deliver one of their own. In the long run, those fighters lose more then they gain: . . . they begin to lose bouts that they could have won by boxing rather than slugging; they suffer extended beatings, cheered on by crowds expecting their pulp-faced hero to pull out one more one-punch comeback; they survive in the business too long on guts and will; they get punchy.