“No one’s allowed to mistreat you; no one’s allowed to hit you.”
“You’ve got to stand up for yourself.”
“Don’t walk around looking at your shoes, boy.”
“You walk around with your head up, you look everybody in the eye, you speak with confidence, and you shake their hand.”
It was an old school education, the kind not many receive anymore, and maybe that’s the point. Maybe that’s why Jackson has a bright future in the UFC’s bantamweight division while many of his peers are stuck, beaten down by circumstances or their environment or both.