Cameron Conaway Quotes

Sweat seems to bleed / like pride from their bones.
Cameron Conaway
The storm before the calm.
Cameron Conaway
In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.
Cameron Conaway
A counter to a jab is a left hook. What’s the counter to prejudice?
Cameron Conaway
What's not there is.
Cameron Conaway
The taste of moon's song.
Cameron Conaway
Blood cannot be without dancing. There is no dancing without blood.
Cameron Conaway
Concrete breathes sun's heat.
Cameron Conaway
Dew moves mountains.
Cameron Conaway
In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.
Cameron Conaway
I turn to Willa Cather’s quote: Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Cameron Conaway
The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with its ability to allow any man of any size to survive.
Cameron Conaway
The weight of wait.
Cameron Conaway
So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.
Cameron Conaway
To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.
Cameron Conaway
The ribboned gallons that rule us like beliefs rooted in single experiences.
Cameron Conaway
My next fight would not be measured in rounds, but throughout a lifetime. It would sustain and fulfill me longer than anything in the cage could. My opponent, my fight, would be against the slipping aspects of American society.
Cameron Conaway