Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Cain Velasquez - Page 2

My dad had to quit school when he was in third grade. My mom had to quit school. They didn't know what I needed, and I didn't know what I needed to keep wrestling and go to school, so that's why I had to go to community college.

When you train the way I do, injuries are going to happen.

I would go into practice pushing the body despite any injuries. It's a good thing but a bad thing. It's good because your body is quick to adapt, but it's a bad thing because you are forcing your body, and it can't recover as well.

My experience here at the WWE Performance Center has been amazing. I'm just looking forward to being here and learning as much as I can the time that I'm here. I've been a fan of the sport since I was a little kid, and now I get to participate in it.

I'm really proud of my coaches and the people I have training with me.

I don't really care who I fight as long as it's the better guy.

That's how fighters get better. They watch film, and they work on what they need to work on.

Hard work and sacrifice can get you a long way.

I'm still in the gym every day for training, putting in the same hard work every week. That's the only way I know how to do it.

I feel great being the first Mexican heavyweight UFC champion.

I fight with a lot of heart.

I am listening more to my body and maintaining it.

Not being active, your name doesn't go out there as much, and you lose the popularity thing. Also, you're not able to make a living. This is what we do to make a living: we go out there and fight. Not being able to fight for a year and a half and not able to bring in money, it definitely sets you back.

I think if something's wrong with me, I just kind of work through it. That's my mentality.

I think of all my fights as title fights. I don't think about what can come up afterwards.

In wrestling, I was always competing against bigger guys.

This whole thing is - our window to be able to fight and make money is very short. It's a short window to be able to take advantage of this and make as much money as we can and save it for the future. When you're not fighting, and the money's not coming in, you can't do that, and that's the part that sucks about this job.

Partnering with MetroPCS is a great opportunity for me. It's great to be partnered with a company that serves a consumer similar to the UFC and my fan base.

When you know you are 100% and, you know, are ready to go, you just have that feeling. You know you are going to perform well.

I think you learn a lot from losses.

I'm not a boxer.

Where I grew up, we had enough to get by, and we had a lot of love. That took me a long way.

When you talk about me as a fighter, I like being known as a Mexican fighter. I think 'Mexican' or 'Hispanic' should be mentioned.

Seeing Mexicans in the media is rare. Seeing role models on TV is rare. So who do we look up to? We're not seen on football fields or basketball courts. So we look up to fighters; they're Mexican. They are out there fighting, representing their people, and winning champions. We look up to them.

I just want to fight and not talk too much.

You have to work your way up the ladder just like everybody else. Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.

When I train, I train well.

I represent hardworking people. That's who raised me. That's who I grew up around.

Both my parents came into the United States from Mexico.

I just deal with what's at hand.

I know I can eat a lot. Normally, at home, I finish my steak, eat the rest of my fiancee's steak, and think about eating the two that are still left on the grill. I just can't stop eating.

I'd like to give some attention to my family, hang out with them for a little while. They definitely deserve it.

I think Mark Hunt just has that knockout power, and that's pretty much it.

You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.

You need good training partners - because you’re only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better.

Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.

I just have to practice hard, get better, and go out there and win impressively - that's all it comes down to.

I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad; I just don't think of it.

While wrestling in college as a junior it came to a point where wrestling just wasn't enough for me anymore. I love wrestling, but I felt like I was missing something, and so the striking part about MMA, the boxing and kickboxing, was what got me really interested in MMA. I saw it on TV and I just knew that I wanted to do it.