Sam Sheridan

After high school Sam went into the Merchant Marines, then quit and spent some time traveling Europe. He went to Harvard, also working a summer on the largest cattle ranch in Montana. Immediately after graduating, Sam took a job on a private sailing yacht for 18 months all the way to Australia. From there Sam went to Thailand, where he lived in a Muay Thai camp and fought, featuring on National Geographic’s “A Fighting Chance.” Later Sam got a job doing construction in Antarctica, where he met a smokejumper who got him into Wildland Firefighting.He continues to do yacht deliveries and has been writing books for the last few years. His first book, “A Fighter’s Heart,” took him on a lengthy odyssey to Brazil and Japan. Sam's second book, “The Fighter’s Mind,” is an investigation into the mental game of fighting, with essays and interviews with the best fighters and trainers in the world.

Quotes

Nikolai C.has quotedlast year
Bullfight critics, ranked in rows,

Crowd the enormous plaza full.

But only one is there who knows,

And he’s the man that fights the bull.
Nikolai C.has quotedlast year
The prisoner and the fighter must give up some part of what is best in him (since what is best for any human is no more designed for prison—or training—than an animal for the zoo). Sooner or later the fighter recognizes that something in his psyche is paying too much for the training. Boredom is not only deadening his personality but killing his soul.
Nikolai C.has quotedlast year
I could argue that the fear of fighting drove me to fight, but I’m not afraid of being hurt, and the thought of getting knocked out doesn’t faze me. What I am afraid of is being made a fool of, of dishonoring myself.
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