Nate Quarry's inspirational speech at a TED conference

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Well this is nuts, TED and MMA together. Never would I expect that.

Pretty cool

by Gerrymanderer on Aug 10, 2010 2:16 PM EDT reply actions

Absolutely fantastic stuff. Great find, Nick.

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by Luke Thomas on Aug 10, 2010 2:29 PM EDT reply actions

Also, rec’d.

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by Luke Thomas on Aug 10, 2010 2:32 PM EDT reply actions

Fantastic. What a great guy.

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by woomikee on Aug 10, 2010 2:36 PM EDT reply actions

I wasn’t sure what to expect, but that was great.

by HeroCasey on Aug 10, 2010 2:48 PM EDT reply actions

I really enjoyed this. I wish it were longer.

by Keren on Aug 10, 2010 2:57 PM EDT reply actions

Now thats a true warrior

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by MrTechnique420 on Aug 10, 2010 3:10 PM EDT reply actions

Very nice

I’m curious: what was the religion he was talking about?

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by jemaleddin on Aug 10, 2010 3:20 PM EDT reply actions

He was raised as a Mormon, I think.

by INGO B on Aug 10, 2010 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions

The official description says Jehovah's Witness

No link to this at the actual TED site though.

by Chortles on Aug 10, 2010 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions

That makes more sense than LDS.

Thanks.

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by jemaleddin on Aug 10, 2010 4:03 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah

im almost 100% sure by the description he said that it is Jehovas witness.
I’ve heard the rapper Ja Rule say similar things and they are JW

by bluejitz on Aug 10, 2010 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions

Man I remember watching that fight with Pete Sell

That was one of the most entertaining cards to date, featuring my two favorite Nates in the whole wide world. And after checking the sherdog forums the next day like I always did and seeing a thread where eveyuone was bitching about Quarry looking “sloppy” and the card in general I decided to never go back there again, and I still haven’t.

by Disco1Stu on Aug 10, 2010 3:46 PM EDT reply actions

Well...

Guess I’m a Nate Quarry fan now, too. That’s the thing about MMA. These guys are special. There’s something in them you don’t find in the general population for the most part. I see something like this and I am just impressed as hell. You drive around and see all those useful idiots with some politician’s bumper sticker on their car… I want to put a Nate Quarry bumper sticker on mine. That’s someone worth looking up to.

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by IKilled007 on Aug 10, 2010 3:48 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs

This.

and there’s something in my eye…

by saabstorey on Aug 10, 2010 6:26 PM EDT up reply actions

that...

that was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen or heard in my life. im not ashamed to say i welled up there. thanks for sharing nate.

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by Martial Farts on Aug 10, 2010 3:50 PM EDT reply actions

I had always heard Nate was a great guy. Awesome to see a MMA fighter at an event like TED.

by Sketchy McRant on Aug 10, 2010 4:27 PM EDT reply actions

Good Speech wish the Audio was better

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by MaZZacare on Aug 10, 2010 4:37 PM EDT reply actions

Wow. Got something in my eye…probably an eyelash…maybe its allergies…

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by ProfessorBLove on Aug 10, 2010 4:41 PM EDT reply actions

Yup

Second time I got something in my eye today. This was on a friend’s facebook page this morning: http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=455621345922

"You stick a microphone in a guy's face and he calls out anybody but the champion, and Joe Silva should fax him a pink slip right then." -- Chael Sonnen.

by IKilled007 on Aug 10, 2010 6:06 PM EDT up reply actions

wow that video was super emotional

i’m a sucker for anything father daughter

who is keizer soze

by Johnathan Willis on Aug 10, 2010 7:19 PM EDT up reply actions

Same

I have a 2-year-old daughter. Really hit me.

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by IKilled007 on Aug 10, 2010 8:21 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah mines 6

who is keizer soze

by Johnathan Willis on Aug 10, 2010 10:45 PM EDT up reply actions

in a suit he looks like he could sit behind an espn analyst desk for mma, i wonder how his commentating skills are

by pandaboy99 on Aug 10, 2010 5:31 PM EDT reply actions

But, who cares about little things, wrestling is wrestling, right? Wrong. And Hendo found out the hard way. - kyfm621

by MrTechnique420 on Aug 10, 2010 6:22 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

by _J on Aug 11, 2010 12:41 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Nate’s a helluva dude. Always been a fan of his.

I was trying to see if his face looked any different after he had his reconstructive surgery.

by BVandDietPepsi on Aug 10, 2010 6:35 PM EDT reply actions

TED presentations are amazing.

BTW, did anyone notice the Rocky IV training music at the beginning? Nice touch after he made the Rocky IV reference in his post-fight interview at UFC 83.

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by MMABookworm on Aug 10, 2010 6:40 PM EDT reply actions

It's funny, i've always looked at Nate as just

another mid level fighter. After seeing what he has overcome and the man I see him as now….well, in about 20 minutes of watching that, I am a huge fan. I will rewatch all of his future fights in a different light. Congratulations and well done, Nate.

by purplehazelett on Aug 10, 2010 10:01 PM EDT reply actions

Great story. I’m an even bigger Quarry fan now. I do wish he would improve his defense/head movement though! I wish more MMA fighters did stuff like this to show the general public another side of the sport. There are SO many stories in MMA..

by mthom on Aug 10, 2010 10:04 PM EDT reply actions

Excellent. I’ve been waiting for this speech to show up online ever since my girlfriend came home from TEDx SF raving about it.

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by Richard Wade on Aug 11, 2010 12:44 AM EDT reply actions

what was the song at the start?

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by frosnt1 on Aug 11, 2010 6:25 PM EDT reply actions

It’s from Rocky IV when he’s training in Russia to fight Ivan Drago. It’s called Training Montage and it’s by Vince DiCola. Here’s a youtube link to the movie part.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8xHjC27YvM

by JoeMimic on Aug 11, 2010 6:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Nice presentation.

I especially like this illustration of the opposite choices of regret verses failure. It really makes you think about the options in life in a new, strangely positive way.

I like Fedor, it’s just his fans that are intolerable...and his management.

by Razreshat on Aug 13, 2010 10:21 PM EDT reply actions

This was pretty awesome

but whats TED?

by av1o3 on Aug 14, 2010 8:40 PM EDT reply actions

From the Wiki page:

TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences curated by the American private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate “ideas worth spreading”.

I like Fedor, it’s just his fans that are intolerable...and his management.

by Razreshat on Aug 16, 2010 5:19 AM EDT up reply actions