Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Diego Sanchez
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
I believe that when you put your energy into your emotions, it takes away from the energy that you can put into your physical, your mental, performance in a fight.
When I shadowbox, I go hard.
Even the best guys in the sport have losses on their record, and Myles Jury, I just feel like he's coming up into that reality check with me.
I was sparring with Dan Christison, a big heavyweight. I threw a leg kick and broke my fibula. Before the Florian training camp.
Go big or go home.' I used to say that. I was addicted to that. The lifestyle, the fame. The girls. The parties. And with that came a lot of people who didn't really care about me. They were just leeches. Just very bad people. I had to learn a lot. I was very gullible.
I train my mind as much as I train my body.
I know people think I'm just the Diego Sanchez from the Gilbert Melendez fight. Hook, hook, hook. A crazy brawler. But I realized the best possible fighter would not get hit. He'd close the distance and minimize the chances of the lights going out. I want to fight as long as I can and be as healthy as I can.
I train six to seven hours during the three separate sessions every day while in camp.
I'm not fighting for bonuses or money or anything else. I fight because I love to fight and I love being in the heat of the battle and the heat of the moment. You might laugh at me when I say this, but I love feeling like I gave the fans their money's worth.
The B.J. Penn fight was the first one where I ever took damage. I got caught coming in. I got hit hard and I never recovered. He picked me apart the rest of the fight. After that, I still didn't take any damage until I fought Martin Kampmann.
We didn't do training in grappling for Chiesa; I was about to put the hands on him, put the elbows on him, put the knees on him, put the hurt on him the way I'd trained for.
I've never been crazy when it comes to controlling my diet. I just avoid processed foods, don't mix carbs and make sure I get my protein. I'm a carnivore. I love my wild game and especially my buffalo meat.
I want to earn my top spot in UFC.
The mind and the body can do anything and there are no limits.
McGregor is a huge 145-pounder with long reach and is taller than his opponents - and that's something that I've always wanted.
I was one of the ones that created the expansion for the sport.
I will always be prepared for the ground. That's my home, that's where my success started. That's always going to be my biggest strength. But all fights start on the feet; I'm prepared to slug on the feet.
When I fought Kampmann, something happened in that fight and to me, it's still the most epic moment in my career. I was losing and something happened and I flipped a switch.
I'm not ruling out the possibilities of being an 'Ultimate Fighter' coach.
Michael Chiesa has written me off as many other men have written me off. As the Vegas oddsmakers have written me off, as the UFC has time and time again and time again written me off. As they have written me off to not be the Ultimate Fighter winner.
In my wrestling days, bulimia was very, very prevalent.
I'm here to be the greatest of all time, and that's what I'm striving for.
I feel like I always knew fighting was what I wanted to do. But when I was 18, I got into a street fight with this football player. He was a big guy and three years older than me. I really kicked his butt, and I realized I had a talent for this and needed to pursue it.
I got sucked real deep into the fame and the money. I was a bachelor and I got sucked into a bad life of partying.
I love motorcycles and riding bikes.
It's been a long road for me, with a lot of ups and downs. Thankfully there have been more ups than there have been downs. For me, what brings me down has only made me stronger because of it.
My first dream was to fight here in New Mexico, Albuquerque, my home town. My second dream is to fight in Mexico City.
For me, if there is one fight I could have, it's Conor McGregor. I'll go fight him in Ireland. He wants to fight in a football stadium? I'll fight him in a football stadium. When he jumped into the spot, he started barking up the wrong dog's alley. I'm one of the guys who laid the bricks for this great career that he is having.
I'm not the old guy, I'm the Jedi.
As long as I'm healthy and as long as I'm good, I want to fight as much as I can.
For a long time, I was living my life my way and not God's way. I wasn't living it by his rules, I was living it by my own rules. And that didn't get me anywhere. I got to the point where I had no hope.
In MMA you have to take one fight at a time but I want BJ Penn. The fans want to see it and, while I'll fight whoever the UFC tells me to, I want a shot at BJ.
A lot of UFC fighters dream of getting in there and finishing a fight in the first round.
The nightmare? The nightmare was myself. I was my own nightmare.
Headlining a UFC card is what I have always wanted.
I give all the credit to God, he's the one who keeps me healthy and I'm just doing what I'm doing. I love this sport. When I got into it I loved it and I've loved it since I was a young child. I'm one of those fighters that just really loved to fight and I embraced it.
I look back on people who are not the average, and those people are not the average because they choose to put it in their mind that they are not the average.
If I ever get into the BKB, yeah, it would be fun. I never really liked the gloves in the UFC anyway. So, I think it's better. You got to pick your shots. You got to be smarter.
When it's time to hang up the gloves, I'll know.
To be a champion in the UFC, you have to be an elite, high-level, effective, professional kickboxer. You have to be the best of the best on your feet.
The only person who can stop Diego Sanchez is Diego Sanchez.
Always learn, adapt and evolve.
I'm doing this to survive. I'm doing this for my livelihood. I'm fighting with my heart and my soul and my passion. I'm going to give it everything I've got.
I was thankful for the fight with Kampmann. I was thankful for the cuts, I was thankful because I found something inside of my heart that I knew was there, but I had never tapped into it. I found this warrior's spirit, an old school warrior within me.
Pressure is the way a predator fights.
I don't need no Tony Robbins. I don't need no chi. I've got the blood of Jesus Christ flowing in my veins.
I feel like I'm a legend continuing to be a legend!
I had, in a way, become 'The Nightmare' in the cage, but also out of the cage. That's why I changed to 'The Dream.' But 'The Nightmare,' is who I am as a fighter and that's the way it's going to stay. I'll be a nightmare inside the cage and a dream outside of it.
I feel like the octagon has been my life.
I have been written off my whole career.
After watching Benson Henderson's performance against Gilbert Melendez, I must say, I wasn't impressed.
I'm done being some brawler.
Ain't no fans, or anybody else's say so when I'm going to step away from the sport. Except my own.
I have always walked around at 170lbs and fought at 170lbs.
At welterweight, man, I'm confident in myself.
Never stop, never give up, never stop giving yourself the self-confidence you need to be a champion.
I remember what it's like, when I was 19-0, going on that awesome streak, feeling invincible. But it's like you eventually run into reality.
The only limits we have are the limits we give ourselves.
I trusted the wrong person with finances and the guy ended up breaking my bank. I lost my money in Ponzi schemes. If it wasn't enough to be wasting a lot of it, one of my best friends totally done me dirty and wiped me out.
You can see the love I have for the sport. Blood, cuts, scars... I love fighting. I'm going to do it for as long as I can.
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