Top 35 Mat Quotes

Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.

Gasman’ was something I wrote on a beer mat in a pub.

My role models are every single woman that steps inside of the cage – inside of an octagon, inside a ring, or on a mat – and proves to themselves and to others that they can do what they need to do. Those are my heroes. Those are my sheroes. Those are the people that I look up to.

I live in this apartment building, and everybody who lives there thinks of me as a housewife. People drop their babies off with me. Or I get notes: ‘I’m going to be gone for three days. The keys are under the mat; take care of the cats.’ Because they all think I’m home all the time.

In my bedroom, I have my yoga mat and the puppets I’ve made over the years, and because I’m very into smells, I have some burned sage on my bedside to help clear my head.

I’ve got more mat hours than most of the guys who are grapplers got on the mat.

I love yoga. I’ll film a class with my teacher, bring my mat with me, and just do it anywhere.

One of the things that made me love wrestling in general was my career in amateur wrestling in high school and college. Just being on the mat made me feel a type of aggression I wasn’t really able to produce in my regular life.

I got a yoga mat, I do yoga twice a week. I do both regular and hot yoga. Lululemon has an extra large yoga mat, longer and wider, so it fits me.

I do mat or take floor Pilates class at home. I also take dance lessons at home.

I’m on the mat six times a week, so I got on the TRT. I had some back issues and I’m always on he mat, so I had my levels checked. So I went and my things were in the 300s or whatever, so I’m like really, wow… so I’m a candidate?

I was invited to have a private sparring session with Royce Gracie. This was 1992, a year before the first UFC. It was just me and him in a room on the mat.

I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.

At the end of the day, you can only fight from yourself. It is only you out there on that mat – but it sure helps knowing you have a great team of supporters cheering for you!

I can’t take a traditional yoga class or anything. I’ll just lay down and take a nap on the mat.

I can’t tell you how many times I hit that mat, especially that first year, where I said to myself, ‘Man, this fake stuff hurts like hell. Do I really want to do this?’ And every time, I would come back, ‘Yeah, I wanna do this.’

I come from the sport of wrestling, where there’s nothing but respect on the mat.

Let God’s grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.

What’s the third smartphone platform? Is it Windows phone? Is Windows Phone going to finally get off the mat in the developed world? Amazon believes their platform has a chance to become the third.

With injuries, every match varies. The black eyes are accidents. The broken noses are accidents. But the bumps from when we land on the mat, they’re hard. I think it looks easier, or the fans don’t really understand what’s happening, but it does take a toll.

Eric Knuutila was one of those coaches who I could tell who cared, who went the extra mile, who made sure that it wasn’t just about getting me on the mat and wrestling.

Yoga is really all about process, acceptance, and becoming more present, and I really want to show that it can expand off the mat.

I take ballet class as often as possible – up to 5 times a week – and try to go to the gym on the days that I don’t take class. I also do a floor barre/Pilates mat class almost everyday.

Growing up wrestling, you get injured, and they expect you back on the mat in a couple weeks unless it’s really bad.

Every single time I get on the mat, every tournament, I get to see what I’m made of, how tough I am, where my desire is, and how hard I’ve worked.

If I have a yoga mat or a pair of jogging shoes, I can stay fit anywhere. The important thing is staying motivated. Because if you’re not driven to keep fit, no amount of time or equipment will help.

Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what’s happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they’re all coming back up off the mat now.

I’ve never read a self help book… the most self-help I’ve read is on a beer mat.

I’m not gonna start bragging about my credentials, but I love jiu-jitsu and I’ve been on the mat awhile, and I’m a jedi and whatnot.

The kind of wrestler that’s going to do well in a combat style event like MMA is one that can explode through – doesn’t need to spend time on the mat – hit his opponent, get him off his feet, and get on top quickly.

There’s a lot of trainers in my career, between Terry Taylor and Arn Anderson, who’ve always told me to keep my damn feet on the ring mat, and there’s just that little kid in me – I may be 45, but there’s that little kid in me that, if I get a chance to do some flying, I’m gonna do it.

Generally speaking, I love a workout that includes stretching and toning exercises for legs and core on the mat paired with ballet-inspired cardio and Barre exercises to get the heart rate up and take the results to the next level.

The second time I was pregnant friends would give me rubber bands to gnaw, because the first time, I had chewed things like a rubber bit that fell off the dishwasher. I remember driving once in the rain and the smell of my rubber-soled shoes in the damp caused me to pull over and start chomping on the rubber mat.

It’s clearly more important to treat one’s fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one’s head to a prayer mat.

I always say my biggest competitor is myself because, whenever I step out there on the mat, I’m competing against myself to prove that I can do this and that I am very well trained, prepared for it.