Askren on honor, integrity, toughness, and soccer

[Bravo]

The world's most popular sporting event, The World Cup, is currently underway. However, welterweight MMA fighter Ben Askren turned on the TV, and he was not impressed.

"It was really the first time I watched soccer all year," said Askren, "I was really appalled when I am seeing all these guys falling on the ground, rolling around, crying. And then you know the worst part about it is, they show the instant replay and you can tell - most of these guys, they don't even get hit, they're faking it."

"When I'm thinking of sports, when I'm thinking of a boy growing up and being a man, I'm thinking of three things - honor, integrity, and toughness. And a grown man, faking an injury, rolling around on the field fails all three of those tests.

"There's no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity because you are lying about it. And there's no toughness because you are in front of millions of people, and you're rolling around on the field, crying - CRYING - about a fake injury that never happened."

"Listen folks, if you want your son to grow up to be a man, don't have him run around on a field kicking a ball, get him wrestling."

[Bravo]

Honor, Integrity, and Toughness


Awesome

things every man should live by


Me training after breaking my nose during a SAYOC KALI seminar back in 2004. A BIG LEO friend accidently shoulder checked my face. I trained for the rest of the weekend, holding it with my empty hand when needed

that was my 2nd break and needed surgery after, ENT Doc said it was the worst one he has ever worked on

[lfthk1]

Great link! Check out Askren on youtube get CRUSHED grappling with Marcelo Garcia, and him being cool about it and respecting the skill level about Marcelo.