Top 108 Quotes & Sayings by Carlos Condit - Page 2

There are players associations in all the other major sports. If the UFC is going to continue to grow and be legitimate, we have to get together. The fighters have to get together and have some leverage.

If you put the time in and you do your work and you eliminate the surprises, then you give yourself the best shot.

I go through different phases where there's times of self-doubt, but when the bell rings and it's time to throw down and I get another opponent in my face, I just go to work my best. I fight and usually it turns out well for me.

I want to be that No. 1 guy in the WEC and UFC.

Just because a musician writes a great album doesn't mean they don't want to continue writing great music.

I'm just a regular guy, and I think sometimes the persona of an MMA fighter are these superstars who are larger-than life-characters. I'm just me and I only try to be me, a normal guy who is interested in a lot of things and happens to have a talent for fighting in a cage.

Even when I a kid, a lot of my wrestling practices were agility. My best seasons were the seasons when we would spend 45 minutes or an hour each practice doing agility drills, making you a better athlete. And then you can plug those skills into whatever athletic endeavor you end up pursuing.

I know what I can do. When I was coming up, I never knew what I couldn't do.

Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn are so, so good at what they do in the mixed martial arts game.

It's hard to get a tattoo and give it the time that it needs to heal in between trying to get ready for fights and train. I would probably have more if I wasn't having to roll around and train all the time.

My cardio, my conditioning, is a weapon.

My life is just like anybody else, there's ups and downs, but I always have to put it in perspective.

I like to keep things exciting. Every minute of the fight, I'm trying to finish my opponent.

My wife is wonderful.

I think I wanted to fight, I'll probably want to fight until the day I'm dead.

You know that when you fight a guy like Georges, there are going to be a lot of demands on your time and you just have to be able to find a way to deal with it. The most important thing is, I can't let my obligations to promote the fight interfere with my obligation to get ready to fight.

This is show business. I know that winning is super important and a gameplan is super important, but at some point you have to, this is the hurt business and you gotta to try to put your opponent out.

I'm just an average, normal guy.

Fights like that, when I have been in those really gritty wars, that's what I live for. I love that stuff.

There are a lot of different things we have in the tool box in every different fight, but depending on the matchup we decide what we are going to take out and kind of play with.

Magny is a tough test. Magny is well-rounded, has great endurance. He's got great boxing and great reach, but he doesn't have great angles. I have better movement than him and I feel that's definitely an advantage.

I love fighting and I love this sport, and as a competitor, I never really wanted to step away. But I have to be practical. I kind of had to think about how long I could continue to do this.

A guy like Tyron Woodley, he hits like a truck. I know personally.

I've been looked past the majority of my career. I'm overlooked, underestimated.

I didn't go to college. I don't have a whole lot of options as far as backup plans.

Being the champion is cool, but the payday is really what I'm interested in.

I've loved being involved in the sport at the time that I have, and I've gotten to do what I love for a living for a long period of time.

I've beaten a lot of guys where I've been the underdog throughout my career. And, I've made a career out of and I've taken a lot of pleasure in proving doubters wrong. And, you do that enough times and you start to believe in your abilities.

If you are competing at a high level, you have to accept that there are going to be ups and downs, because that is part of this business.

The pressure of kind of being one of the top guys for almost a decade, it's been awesome.

I do think that maybe, sometimes, I get overlooked. I think it's maybe because I don't present the average image of an MMA fighter.

I knew that in fighting, sometimes you get your butt kicked and sometimes, you do the butt-kicking. It was always a matter of trying to learn and trying to get better.

I have a lot of things I want to do in my life.

I love MMA. I will be involved in some capacity, or in various capacities within the sport, after my fighting career is over.

I am gradually building my career fighting tougher and tougher opponents.

It's not what you say or how you act. At the end of the day, when all is said and done, it's what you do when the bell rings that really matters.

When I fought GSP and knocked him down I got really excited and punched myself out.

I've had a long career with a lot of fights, and I've taken a lot of punishment.

I think I outperformed my actual abilities a lot by just rising to the occasion, and that's kind of what I think I thrived on for a long time.

Fighting is an important part of my life, but it's only one part of my life. The last thing I want to be is one-dimensional, as a fighter or as a person.

I want whoever has the title in a couple of months.

I think about a storm rolling in with black clouds and I visualize the lightning and try to draw energy from that, and I think: all I have to do is beat this man until he stops moving, then I can go home to my son.

This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.

It's the quiet, humble guy that's not saying anything. That's the really dangerous one.

I'm an emotional guy, I cry at movies, man, so beating GSP and winning the world title... yeah, I'll probably cry in the Octagon.

No matter how bad it gets, I can always rise up.

The only thing you can do is prepare the best you can and then just accept... stuff happens.

I find motivation anytime I need it, no matter how bad I’m hurting I can push through anything