Top 112 Quotes & Sayings by Alexander Gustafsson - Page 2

A loss is always a loss.

When you take that step to watch a fight you lost, it's takes some courage.

Even wrestling, now, I wear the helmet all the time. I'm not going to make that mistake again ever in my life.

I'm not a decision guy. I want to finish guys.

For me to train good, I need a goal.

I just hate losing.

Whenever you're training and warming up for the fights, you have your friends around you, you have friends that will compete and we push each other.

When it comes to a title fight, if I will fight Jon Jones one day, if he's still the champ, I will be more than ready for it. I will take home the belt.

You can't relax, even for a millisecond in this sport.

I know I have potential to be the best in the world.

I try to get better with every fight - my boxing, my wrestling, my jiu-jitsu, everything.

When you're fighting a guy like DC, he's just coming in and pushes you. You have to push him back.

You have to improve; that's how you develop.

I win over Anthony Johnson six out of seven days. But, the only thing that wasn't supposed to happen, happened.

I'm just going to go through Anthony Smith, I want to get that W, beat him, and just look for the next challenge basically.

I'm a kinda strong person and kinda heavy.

Having the fans behind me is a really good push.

To take the belt from the champ you need to finish him.

If you just train because you have to train, it's not the right reasons.

I'll fight anyone, it doesn't matter to me.

I am a fighter and it's what I do, what I live for.

It's hard to just go one day from another to being one of the best fighters in the world to just stop doing what you love to do.

I'm a morning person.

I think Manuwa is a very dangerous fighter.

I'm just taking one fight at a time and trying to fight the best guys, and have fun doing it.

I want to beat the best guys.

DC is tough and he's such a good athlete. I think he's better at heavyweight than he is at light heavyweight. I think he's stronger, he can eat and he doesn't have to stress about the weight.

We're supposed to be role models.

We are not in the playground anymore, it's not about who is the toughest, it's about my career, I want to have a long and successful career.

I feel like five rounds is nothing for me.

I'm just blessed to be fighting in the UFC.

You have to think tactically and you can't just go in and swing against the first best opponent.

I'm a better fighter than Rumble. I've got too many tools for him.

It's not always shine and good feelings in training. But when it comes down to it you need to have that happiness and motivation in training.

My big focus is to win every fight.

I like to go to bed very early and get up very early.

In the past when I'd made my 33 lbs weight cut there would always be some small injury, my back, my knee or something else.

It's a sport. Sometimes you lose and sometimes you win.

I feel my conditioning is one of my strengths.

I won a lot of fans and that means a lot to me as a fighter.

Stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life.

My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you.

It comes with it, this is my work and all the media thing is just a big bonus for me. I'm just enjoying being in the spotlight right now so it's not a big deal for me.

I'm a fighter and I just want to fight better guys all the time, tougher guys so I just want to beat better guys and my goal is to be number one one day so if I get a chance to fight a better guy I'll do it, anytime, anywhere.

You can't be too comfortable. I have to keep pushing myself to be a better fighter every step of the way.

Yeah of course, it's a lot of emotions, a lot of different thoughts, it's a big thing, the biggest I've done in my life so far but still it's just a fight for me, I go in there and have fun basically. I'm doing something I love to do.

You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.

Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.

I'm never satisfied, I always want to do better. That's how it is to be an elite athlete, you're never happy. When you start getting happy and you start feeling satisfied, you're done.

My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you. Also, you could try to distance yourself emotionally from the whole situation. In my case, I just look at it objectively: We are two guys going inside a cage to work. That's it. Try to de-escalate the pressure. Take a couple of deep breaths. Don't hype things up. And stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life.

I'm working hard and I think I'm where I should be at by now but I'm in no hurry at all, I'm taking one fight at a time, I want to win my fights. With the title shot I don't know yet but if I get the chance someday, I will be more than ready.

I'm based in Stockholm and I train at Nexus Fighter Centre, it's my club and my head coach Andreas Michael but for two weeks now I went to Vegas to train with Team Alliance with coach Eric Del Fierro, Phil Davis and top level guys. I had top level sparring so I'm more than ready.