Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Colby Covington

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Colby Covington.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Colby Covington

Colby Ray Covington is an American professional mixed martial artist who currently competes in the welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former Interim UFC Welterweight Champion. As of June 2021, he is #1 in the UFC welterweight rankings.

Everybody's calling me out. Why do you think everybody wants to fight me? I'm the money fight.
If you have a sleeping disorder, just get TyQuil: Tyron Woodley, the gossip girl.
Brazil is a dump. — © Colby Covington
Brazil is a dump.
Malki Kawa, he doesn't know what he's doing. He doesn't know how to do business.
When I fight, people are going to watch me fight. They're not gonna turn the channel to 'Real Housewives of OC' like they will other fighters.
'Star Wars' is for nerds and virgins.
I'm the ultimate professional.
I don't ever cross the line. I step right up to it. I put my toes on the line, but I don't ever cross that line. There are some barriers you just don't cross - you don't talk about religion; you don't talk about race. Those are lines I will never cross.
I'll use wrestling if I need to in fights, but maybe I'll fight another wrestler, and you'll find out how good my striking is.
I've really taken a lot of time to work on my Karate, worked on my kickboxing, and Muay Thai.
I've never asked for more money, not one time in my career. I fought Demian Maia for $30,000. The No. 2 guy in the world, I was fighting for $30,000. So I don't care about money.
You have to have a character; you have to build your character. If you understand the pro wrestling scheme of things, then you understand what the promoting is. These guys are friendly backstage, but as soon as the cameras turn on, it's a whole different story: you become that character.
As far as standup goes, I really feel like I can stand and bang and trade with anybody in the game. — © Colby Covington
As far as standup goes, I really feel like I can stand and bang and trade with anybody in the game.
It gets a little tough when you're cutting weight to travel all over the place, when you want to focus on really getting yourself ready to peak for your fight.
Everybody in the world knows how good I am.
I've trained hundreds of hundreds of rounds of sparring at American Top Team.
I don't really feel like rankings mean anything.
I know that my grappling is up there with any grappler in the division.
I'm a company man. I'll go wherever the UFC wants me to go.
You can't live off your past.
The division needs a guy like me. It's a bunch of good guys, and I'm the only bad guy in the division. There always has to be a bad guy in every movie.
There's never any issues with Colby 'Chaos' Covington. I always do the right things.
I'm not a liar; I'm a truth teller.
All these guys that want to act tough and act like they're hard in the street, that's cool, man. I'm glad you want to act hard, and your emotions are driving crazy, but you need to get out of your feelings, nerds.
I'm not just a wrestler anymore. I'm a very well-rounded fighter.
My pace alone is unstoppable. No one can keep my pace.
In the wrestling world, we say the Judo guys are just the leftover wrestlers that couldn't make the wrestling team.
I know I'm going to lose friends, and I'm going to go on the road less traveled with less people. But at the end of the day, I'm not trying to make friends; I'm trying to make the most money possible.
I'm always training, whether I'm training my mind, or I'm training my body. I'm always doing something.
Ben Askren, the only thing we have in common... I have a real belt. He has some belts from back in the day that don't even matter anymore.
Nothing about Ben Askren impresses me. He's a one-dimensional fighter. He's never hurt a fly.
Ricardo Liborio is a joke.
I'm looking for three belts. I'm looking to do something that's never been done in this sport. I wanna go down to 155. I wanna go up to 185 and take the belt.
I can beat people on the feet; I can beat people on the ground. It doesn't matter.
Sao Paulo is a dump. That's a known fact.
You can't come in and invade people's personal space because of free speech.
I'm a bad person.
Every time the UFC offers something, I just take it. — © Colby Covington
Every time the UFC offers something, I just take it.
I'd probably be, like, a 2-to-1 favorite over Woodley if we fought.
I'm the biggest draw. I do the biggest numbers in this division, and it's not even close. There's a reason all these guys want to fight me. They don't want to fight Tyron Woodley. Because I'm the biggest fight and the biggest draw in the division.
It's not OK to condone violence because of free speech.
Every time the UFC brings me out, I'm always professional. I'm always on time. I make weight.
You can't come up and attack someone because of free speech.
Super villains and bad guys win in real life.
I was actually born in Sacramento, in Rocklin, which is a suburb of Sacramento. I lived there for the first 8 years of my life.
GSP, that little syrup sucker, he can come get this. He thinks he's the greatest welterweight of all time. I have something else to say about that. I'll destroy him.
I'm in this to be the best fighter in the world, to put on entertaining shows, and to please the fans.
Robert Whittaker hasn't been that impressive. He got knocked out by choir boy Stephen Thompson. — © Colby Covington
Robert Whittaker hasn't been that impressive. He got knocked out by choir boy Stephen Thompson.
Tyron Woodley can't top me, and Demian Maia has no chance to stop me.
The guys at Team Alpha Male, they're my friends. I have a lot of respect for those guys.
If I can't do one thing, which is a lower body exercise, then I'm gonna use my upper body, and I'm gonna get stronger upper body. If I'm not getting stronger upper body, I'll be working on my cardiovascular - swimming or other exercises where I can get my heart rate up.
Being at American Top Team, I get the best fighters and best trainers in the world.
Demian Maia is a one-trick pony.
Usman's a scrub, man. He's not relevant. No one cares about him. People don't want to see him fight.
If the UFC wanted to give me Warlley Alves, I would show them how chump change he is. And I'd show them how much of a fluke it was that he caught me in a lucky submission.
I'd love to go to Russia and silence that crowd and give the Russian fans something to cry about.
I think that people live in safe spaces these days; they don't want to deal with the controversy and the drama.
Ben Askren is a joke. The guy has no skills.
My schtick is trolling people. I love getting a rouse out of people and making them angry.
Tyron Woodley knows how good I am.
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