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Book Reviews - Hobaugh BOOK REVIEW (pt. 3 of 4): Ten Best Quotes from Jens Pulver's "Little Evil: One Ultimate Fighter's Rise to the Top"
Mar 22, 2010 - 1:06:17 PM
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By: Eric Hobaugh, MMATorch Specialist
10. "Twenty minutes later, I was locked into the cage with a guy who towered over me. As always, I stuck to what I knew. I took him down to the mat and beat him with short choppy strikes-it was all over in less than two minutes."
9. "Fear put me on this path. And this path-which led me to become one of the most feared pound-for-pound cage fighters in the world-eventually enabled me to put childhood demons to rest and find inner peace."
8. "All the energy I'd harnessed for survival would be redirected into healing. I would have to look inside myself for the first time, and, scarred by years of abuse, I was afraid of what I might see."
7. "Winning doesn’t matter," Russ told me later. "It's how you win that counts. It's the same with everything in life. The goal doesn't mean shit-what matters is the path you take to get it." (Russ Hayden was Jens Pulver's wrestling coach in grade school.)
6. "Pat Miletich didn't have a labyrinth of high-tech equipment; neither did he own the building that housed his training facility. He taught his young scrappers the art of reality fighting in a disused racquetball court in a local gym."
5. "He didn't argue, and the next time I saw him was on television. His face was being broadcast on the show America's Most Wanted, and in the back of my mind, I knew that this was an accomplishment that Dustin was probably proud of." (Dustin Pulver is Jens' younger
brother.)
4. "Even before I saw the pain twist his features into a terrible grimace, I knew that I'd hurt him. I'd had the same feeling while playing baseball as a child... when I had hit a home run."
3. "As the cameras hone in on me, I look out at the world, and I finally have the courage to tell the truth. I say, 'B.J. Penn wasn't anything'. After getting beat on all my life by my old man, there isn't anything I can’t handle."
2. "I guess some people are like Dusty-they die long before they achieve their dreams; and others are like my father-they die long before their date with death. And then there are those like me, who are given many chances to find the right path."
1. "‘You aren’t worth the bullets,' he eventually said. Then he slowly pulled the barrel from my mouth. I, Jens Pulver, just wasn't worth the bullets." (He is referring to his father's unsuccessful
attempt to kill him and his brothers.)
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