Anderson Silva, UFC champion, shares ten rules for success including relentless training, family support, confronting fear, learning from mistakes, and respecting opponents. He emphasizes mental preparation and applying martial-arts discipline to business and life.
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He's a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC middleweight champion. He holds the longest title defense streak in UFC history with 16 consecutive wins and 10 title defenses. UFC President Dana White and other experts have called him the greatest mixed martial artist of all time. He's Anderson Silva, and here are his top 10 rules for success.
I love my sport. I love my job. I straight my focus all the time in my life for training because fight is my life. And sometimes everything's changed because you have the good working, bad working, and good experience, bad experience, but I love my job. And I talk to my family and I say I go back to fight because this is me. Então ninguém é invencível. Todo mundo tem o seu momento da nuvem negra. Todo mundo tem.
E todo mundo tem um momento mágico. O meu momento mágico durou por 8 anos.
Franklin is in trouble. Silva trying to finish it here. Another knee. It does hurt Franklin, and it is all over. The right hand hurts him. Boom. The knee to the head hurts him. Another knee. That right knee caught him flush, Joe. That was it.
Nick is the great fight. Nick fight for the, the, for a long time in the same category. So I go training hard because all the fighters when they go to UFC is the best fighters in the world. No me, no Nick, all the fighters. I need you training hard because when they go, when they start the fight, Nick have good training, have good jiu-jitsu, have a good boxing, and it's the fight. Is the great fight. All the people in the world waiting for this, and I'm prepared for this. I go for fight for Nick because I respect Nick. Nick is danger, and the same position. Nick no fight for a long time, I no fight for a long time. I think it's the great fight.
Anderson holding on to the arm. And he takes him down. Swarms him. Looking to finish the fight right here. It is all over! Anderson Silva defeats Stephan Bonner! He is the first guy to ever stop Stephan Bonner.
So I'm very happy because my family give me the sport and help me. For back because my sons and my wife say, "Dad, this is your time. This is your life.
Go. Keep going." Irvin throws the kick, Anderson catches it right on the chin, takes him down. It looked like Irvin was done already from that one punch, and just a few punches more and that's it.
I remember, uh, the— my life and start the, the training, and the more difficult is the training because My stepmom say me, "No martial arts." Uh-oh. "Because this is danger. You need to pick it up, you focus for school and the same professional your dad, your brothers." My family in Brazil, my old family, my brothers, my dad is cop in Brazil. So, and— I talk to my dad, no, I don't go for school, for the academy, for cop. I go for training because I love martial arts. My dad and my mom say, you crazy?
Why?
That's funny. Your brothers, your dad is the cop. Why you go change? Because. Why? What is your problem? I say, Mom, Dad, this is my dream. So now it's very good.
Yeah, it worked out. It seems to have worked out. It seemed to have worked out for everybody.
Yeah, my dad talked to me now. My stepdad talked to me now. Oh, good job, man.
We were so wrong. We were so wrong. Levan is rocked! He was stunned! He was like, "Man, I thought it was over!" Oh, he is in big trouble! Chris Levan goes down again! And it is all over! Wow! And it's all over! He gave Chris every chance he possibly could to recover.
Bam!
Bam! And that is the end.
É, todo mundo falou: "Cara, foi bom você ter errado, porque assim a gente consegue ver aonde a gente tá errando." Porque até então tava dando tudo certo. Se você não erra, a gente não ia ter como ver o que você tava fazendo de errado. A gente consegue ver algumas coisas as quais você faz errado, mas a gente corrige. Mas teve uma coisa muito maior que você fez errado, que é de repente tá 100% focado e deixar as coisas que supostamente vão te afetar dentro do treino, fora do treino, para que você consiga ir lá e fazer o que você sempre fez bem feito, né?
That shot right there broke Rich's nose, and that was the end of the fight. High kick, another high kick to the body, tried the big elbow, another knee right to the head, and Rich goes down for the last time here. John McCarthy saw enough.
Boom!
Flush on the face with that right knee. Rich staggers back. I don't know. I don't know, sometimes I think in my mind, so when I stop, Anderson? I talk to my master, this is my first master, and why is the time for stop, master? My master say, you no have time for stop. Your time in your heart. When your heart say no more, No more. Because when you come to here, is young, I train you, no for fight, I train you for life. And martial arts change your life. You wasn't, you wasn't my technique and for martial arts for fight, but I no show you for fight, I show you for your life. And I think this— when I finish, my heart give the support for, say, Anderson. Done.
Complete disdain for the striking ability of Forrest. Look at that right hand. Look at that. I mean, that was just like a paw.
When I fight the first fight in UFC and when I got the belt, I stay in the belt for 7 years. Now is no new one for me. So I'm working for UFC. UFC is my family. So my focus now is the fight for Nick Diaz. When I finish the fight for Nick, I win, I go training for next fight.
This was one of the most amazing. Look at this, he throws it from here. Watch this.
Oh, what a shot!
Beautiful!
Não, eu sempre tenho medo porque é um esporte de contato, mas é um esporte assim que a gente vê muitas coisas nos treinos que acontecem coisas tão bobas assim que a pessoa acaba se machucando e ficando tipo toma uma queda errada, acaba machucando o braço. Toma um soco errado, não um soco errado, mas acaba pegando o soco com a mão aberta e o dedo entra dentro do olho e acaba machucando os olhos. Você não consegue treinar mais, você tem que se afastar durante um tempo. E o risco é maior quando você tá lutando, né? Porque são dois atletas super treinados, mas o risco é maior. Então eu tenho medo de toda vez que eu subo ali, eu tenho medo. Eu acho que o medo ajuda a você respeitar muito aquele ambiente e a se defender melhor.
When you go to fight, this is you. No have people, no have fans, no have nothing. When you go inside the octagon, you need you take it off all the people and close together you and go inside and putting your mind and your heart for fight. Sometimes I have the bad energy, good energy, but the more important is you happy. When you go to fight, you go to walking for octógono, you happy, everything is good.
Like we said, second to none. Oh, he front kicked him in the face! Absolutely rocked! Trying to finish it! It is all over! Anderson Silva remains the new champion! A front kick to the face!
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