One day I put my camera down ringside and spent the time listening to them carefully. Laercio arrived to train and Mauricio fired a question at him. “What is the greatest conquest?”
Laercio looked at him without responding, so Mauricio answered his own question. “The control of your emotions,” he said.
Laercio never stopped looking at his mentor, who continued the questions.
“Who is your greatest adversary?”
More silence.
“We, ourselves,” responded Mauricio. “Training is our best medicine. This is the present. The future is in our imagination.”
Silence again, and Mauricio said, “Start with the mirror and confront yourself first.” That’s when I realized that Mauricio’s phrases weren’t only about sport, but rather about training for life itself.
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