-Technique beats strength. But spirit beats the technique.
-Every time you achieve a dream, you must set another one. Because that will strengthen your path. Or you will become dead because if you have no dreams, you have no life.
-I believe you must have passion - passion for what you do. Sometimes the results don't matter as much as the fact that you are doing it with love. You must enjoy your day to day. That's the most important thing, because the rest you can achieve. You can overcome any obstacle, and you can stay awake with hunger when you love what you do. You will overcome anything if you love what you do. So the most important thing I have to say is that I love what I do. I love training every day, and to step inside the Octagon is a celebration. That is what matters.
Dean Lister - People Want to see Submissions by stuartcooperfilms
some quotes (some paraphrased)
*a submission to me is finishing the fight - and that to me is the art. i think that's interesting...points are a big part of it but submission is the end....i use the positions, i use the points - to get the submission - that's my goal every time.
*i'm a submission fighter. i'm not a point fighter. so if i play the point game - i may win, i may lose.
*i do get position before submission but i favor the submission. i'll die for submissions. i'll give my arm for a submission to try to go for a submission on my opponent.
*my strength and conditioning....i'm a big fan of just wrestling harder, wrestling more and doing more jiujitsu...i think that's more important....if you get too much into supplementary training....i think you're walking away from the sport. and if i love the sport, i'd want to do the sport more.
*there's all kinds of guys who are stronger than me in the weight room but they're not going to be usually stronger than me on the mat. i have good functional strength.
*i do [lift?] but i do with a human body weight. so when other guys get tired from training and want to lift weights, i'll do more throws....i don't deal with a bar that doesn't move. i deal with something that moves. so i think that's how you get functional....also the floor moves....things are not stable. so that's a big part of functional training. it's hard to get that with a weight that is not a human body weight...yeah i use more human body weights more and throw it around and keep training jiujitsu and keep doing wrestling.
*i think people should be on the mats more and less in the weight room
*when i focus on a positive performance, i usually do win. i usually do have a very good day. and usually i do walk away with my hand raised...it's about focusing on what i'm doing at the moment.
