Quotes About Instinct

Weapons training, how to clear a room - all that stuff is imprinted into me.

For me, family feels like a web of love and care, and instinctively, too, I do just like nurturing things.

I have lucky boots for military embeds, a lucky scarf for road trips, a lucky handbag, and lucky days of the week. I tap into my gut for 'right' or 'wrong' feelings about such simple things as whether I should go grocery shopping.

When I got to the NBA, picking and popping came so natural for me.

I never know if a song's going to be popular so I don't select them with that in mind. All I can do is follow my heart and my gut and go for songs that make me feel great.

In fact, the sense of positioning, anticipation, is something very natural. I always knew where the ball was going to drop.

I played in different positions as a kid, and it helped me learn different parts of the game, but I found that I was always scoring goals, and that continued as I got older. I've always enjoyed scoring, and it seemed to come naturally. Fortunately, that has carried on into my professional career.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.

Biology always beats will power.

Contact is in my nature.

I'm very competitive. I remember being 4 years old trying to out-chug my dad in a milk-chugging contest. It's been in my blood.

I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.

As a creative person, I think one should follow one's heart.

The first time I crawled into the octagon, I just felt like an animal, you know? Like a creature, like I wasn't quite human.

Whenever I hear a baby cry, I cringe.

When you're in a crisis, there's really no playbook.

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

I just have to go against the grain. I mean, I can be objective and do what I need to do, handle my everyday living, follow directions, etc. But there's something that's always been attracted to that taboo. It's been like that since I was a child.

Certain things come naturally, and tackling wasn't one of them; I'd sometimes go a bit over the top when I was younger.

As a rugby player I got into the habit of tackling without thinking. But in MMA you've got to land the right way. You can't flop. You've got to bounce back to your feet. You've got to use your sprawl.

Madrid's players are carried along by the football itself, what they feel in each moment; they're not guided by tactical rigor or a specific structure.

I know that if something isn't open down field I can take advantage of my legs and make a play.