Post by R. Devane on Sept 18, 2008 12:00:26 GMT
Most people don't know this about me but I read a lot (not just martial arts!) and I am a firm believer that you further your own education through reading and the books that you choose. So, anyone that hasn't picked up a book since school, get reading!
Anyway, there was part of a thread a while ago about good books. Anyone got any suggestions (Martial Arts related)?
I'm reading this at the moment and I'm half way through and it's not bad:
www.amazon.com/Title-Shot-Shark-Mixed-Martial/dp/098150440X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221739041&sr=8-1
There was a great quote in it that I could make a whole other thread about but here it is:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Anyway, there was part of a thread a while ago about good books. Anyone got any suggestions (Martial Arts related)?
I'm reading this at the moment and I'm half way through and it's not bad:
www.amazon.com/Title-Shot-Shark-Mixed-Martial/dp/098150440X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221739041&sr=8-1
There was a great quote in it that I could make a whole other thread about but here it is:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
