"When two men are fighting, what you're watching is more a contest of wills than of skills, with the stronger will usually overcoming the skill. The skill will prevail only when it is so superior to the other man's skill that the will is not tested.... As many times as you see a fellow get tired in the course of a fight, note that he gets tired when pressure builds up, after he gets hurt or he's been in some kind of doubtful situration, not being able to control the situation. That's when he starts getting tired. That's why when two good fighters get to fight, they're head to head, so to speak, they won't give an inch and they're using all their skill and ability, until maybe about the seventh or eighth or ninth round, one fighter starts to visibly weaken. It only means he's reached a point where he no longer can stand the pressure. He's now become dominated, because when two people fight it's very much like two armiers. They seek to impose their will on one another."
"When the novice throws punches an nothing happens, and his opponent keeps coming at him ... the new fighter becomes panicky. When he gets panicky he wants to quit, but he can't quit because his who psychology from the time he's first been in the streets is to condemn a person who's yellow. So what does he do? He gets tired. This is what happens to fighters in the ring. They get tired, because they're getting afraid ... Now that he gets tired, people can't call him yellow. He's just too "tired" to gon on. But let that same fighter strike back wildly with a visible effect on the opponent and suddenly that tired, exhausted guy becomes a tiger. ... It's a psychological fatigue, that's all it is, but people in boxing don't understand that."
From Bad Intentions
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