Top 108 Quotes & Sayings by Carlos Condit
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American mixed martial artist Carlos Condit.
Last updated on September 12, 2024.
With Georges, you've got to get in there and do what you have to do to win. I don't care how you win. That's from a fighter's perspective. You've got to get in there and win the fight.
I'm dangerous and I can finish from a lot of different positions.
I want to become undisputed UFC welterweight champion. I've been so close a couple of times, but I don't want to leave the sport always a bridesmaid and never a bride. I want to get that belt around my waist.
I try to inflict as much damage as possible, at all costs.
I think I pose some problems for Georges that he maybe hasn't seen in the past.
I know what it is to feel like you've gotten into a 60-mile-an-hour car accident after a fight. It's pretty rough. It's why we are where we are. We get paid to fight the best in the world and that's something you know going in is part of it.
If you can use the takedown to control the fight, then that can be scored as octagon control. However, if you're taking somebody down, and not doing much with it, and if the guy gets right back up, then I think that stand-ups and escapes should also carry some weight in the judge's eyes.
Getting through these camps, sometimes you're held together with paper clips and bubble gum and tape. You just kind of get in there and you make it work because if you pull out of a fight, you don't get paid.
I think Johny Hendricks has a puncher's chance. He's obviously a big puncher. He's got the power to make it a short night for GSP, but I feel like GSP is going to out-technique Johny Hendricks.
I'm not satisfied until I fight and beat the champion and I'm the undisputed welterweight champion. That's when I'll be satisfied.
I've been eight weeks into a fight camp, two weeks out from a fight, having paid coaches, booked plane tickets, and invested quite a bit of money in my camp, only to not be able to fight because my opponent got hurt. Boom. I'm out that money. It sucks.
On a regular day, something is hurting. It varies more or less. Seems like I heal pretty quickly and get over stuff, or I'm just used to dealing with stuff.
The high-profile fights are what matter to me because I have a family to take care of. That's how I put food on the table. That's my job.
When I was younger, I was a little less focused and I liked to have a lot of fun. I'd come in and do a five-week camp or maybe a four-week camp and do a five round fight.
When I was 20, 21, 22 years old, I was making really good money for a 22-year-old, but it wasn't a huge pot. And of course I made a lot of mistakes. I'm glad I got to make those mistakes with a smaller pool of money and learn from it as opposed to learning the hard way with bigger amounts of money when there would be more consequences.
When I have that sinking feeling in my stomach before a fight and I have that dread that I'm going to step in there with a savage who is coming in there to hurt me... I have my best fights. I'm at my best under those circumstances.
This career affords me the opportunity to accumulate money, power and respect.
I don't think I need the rematch. I won the fight; I think I'd win a rematch. But the thing about it is, I want to be in big fights, fights where there's a lot of buzz, a lot of people wanting to see the fight, and a rematch with Nick Diaz fits the bill.
Georges is a guy I've looked up to since I was a kid, before the UFC.
I did the best that I could in preparing for Georges, knowing what I knew. Some things worked, and some things didn't.
While I'm in training camp, I don't do a whole lot of live wrestling, because I feel like that's where most of my injuries occur.
I have to focus on what I have control over.
It's a tough sport, and I've been at it a long time.
I've got nothing but respect for the guys I compete against, but in the cage it's a different story.
I was supposed to fight Paul Daley a while back. I got staph infection in my hand and had to pull out of the fight. There's some unfinished business there. I like that fight.
In my career, my motivation has ebbed and flowed. Sometimes I was all about it, sometimes I felt really burnt out.
Georges is very good at what he does, but a lot of his fights aren't really very exciting.
The more dangerous my opponent is, the better I fight.
This fight is something I've been working towards for 10, 12 or 15 years, since I first started competing, not even competing, just training in Mixed Martial Arts. This is a dream of mine, and to fight Georges St-Pierre in his hometown for the undisputed belt, it's surreal and an opportunity of a lifetime for me.
My endurance has always been a strong point of mine... I think that has helped me in my fights.
I've always been a big fan of Georges. I've admired his style and kind of the way he carries himself, and I'm honored to get in there and challenge him for the belt and step in the cage with him.
Georges is one of the best guys that's ever stepped in the Octagon. That's actually the main reason I want to fight him. I look for a challenge. To be the best, you've gotta beat the best. And Georges St-Pierre is the best.
I feel like I just have the ability to threaten from any position, whether we're standing or the fight is on the ground.
My best friend from up the street, another really tough kid, we'd box every day after school, starting around 6th or 7th grade. We would go in the backyard, and we would slug out. We'd box until we got tired or until somebody quit. Other kids would come over, and they would want to box. Most of the time they didn't fare too well.
I love kids and animals. I'm a pretty gentle guy.
I love what I do.
By the time I got the notoriety to get bigger sponsors, the sponsorship tax had already taken effect, but I still had some pretty lucrative sponsors.
The difference is that the money I make from Reebok is per fight, meaning I have to fight to get that money. If I don't fight, there is no money. It's not based on me being a good spokesman or one of the faces of their company. It's a per fight thing. It's a very different thing. It's more like a fight bonus than a sponsorship.
I think in training is where a lot of the injuries occur, or at least start.
People's perception sometimes ends up being the reality.
I've had the interim belt before and that little interim specification bothers me.
Dwelling too much on the past, other than to learn specific things is counterproductive for me.
Georges is very good at what he does. He's got great wrestling. He's got some very, very quick, effective strikes.
I want to avenge my losses. I want to avenge as many losses as I can.
Before the fight I don't like to talk a lot of crap about my opponents, it's nothing personal, when it comes to interviews or anything like that. But once I get in there, I make it personal. This is my livelihood, my life is either going to go up or go down depending on what happens right here, so it's really personal. I make that guy my enemy.
Fitch isn't as much of a finisher as Thiago Alves, he's more about grinding his opponent into the ground - literally. With my jiu-jitsu, I could withstand that and do better than a lot of guys have done.
People hear my dad is involved in politics, and all of a sudden I went to private school and had a nanny. There's a misconception that my dad, that our family is some kind blue-blood family... If people knew my friends, talked to anybody I grew up with, knew anybody from my old neighborhood, they'd know that's really, really far from the truth.
Georges kind of cleaned out the division of all the contenders. But while he was doing that, there were some other guys that were coming to take their place.
Avenging a loss to GSP, it's definitely on my radar.
In the cage, you can't say, 'Oh wait, that's off limits.' There's no timeouts, there's no substitutions and there's no saying my knee is off limits. This is a full contact sport.
I think some guys are able to take more damage, some guys are more resilient than others.
Before these fights, everything in your body freaks out like it's saying, 'No... don't do this,' but you still make that walk and do it. Going through those things and coming out on the other side, no matter how the fight turns out, is a win.
I wasn't going to be able to re-grow my ACL back overnight. I was where I was with this and I just had to accept it. I had to stay focused on getting back. Honestly, I kind of felt in a weird way lucky because it was 12 years into my career that this happened.
In high school we'd grapple on my friend's trampoline for hours. Sometimes we'd have a party at a house. We'd take challenge matches and throw down with different people. By we, I mean me. My friends usually just watched until the other guy's friends jumped in.
The object is to hit the other guy and not get hit. I think the least amount of damage you can take is the best route.
I'm a hell of a lucky guy.
I proved that I can compete with the best in the world.
Whether I'm in camp or out of camp, I am 100 percent dedicated to my profession.
I'm well-rounded.
It's something I advise young fighters: Get it while the getting's good. Take care of yourself financially. Be smart and save your money and protect your damn head, dude. Try to take as little damage as possible, especially training.
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