Top 113 Quotes & Sayings by Nick Diaz
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I don't like the way the cage is set up. I think it's really dangerous that the metal comes up about three inches off the ground. People were putting their foot on it. I can see it. And I was worried about being taken down and landing backwards with my elbow. and damaging my elbow or even my head.
I live a fight life, I can do what I want to win a fight.
They pay me way too much money but not enough as far as I'm concerned.
Stylistically, though, I've always liked Carlos Condit, because he at least amounted to at least the level of doing what I do. I mean, but I think he stands a little upright.
I'm ready to fight anybody.
I'm the most overworked, overtrained, underpaid fighter.
That's a disgusting thought to have to fight my brother. I don't even appreciate being asked about that.
I'm not no chump.
I just come to fight. Whatever happens out there happens.
A lot of guys have to worry about what their wives and kids think, I don't.
I'm not hard to find. I'm on Snapchat and Instagram every day.
I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.
This is my life. It's everything I do, train eight-hour days every day.
I had my mom drive me to practice everywhere. I'm really grateful I had her.
I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with.
What I do is, I fight.
I did aikido when I was four years old.
I am a fighter. It's what I am.
I felt like my job is to go out there and put on a good show, amazing fights and give an amazing effort and hope that people can recognize that sort of thing, and maybe they would want to find out more.
You see me. What you see is what you get. You get real martial arts, you get real fighting, you get a real warrior mentality. Some people aren't mature enough to handle it.
I drink 10 pounds of water and sweat out 10 pounds of water every day.
I just want to display my skills to the world because I can do it all.
Sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some, sometimes you can't be at 100 percent.
Stockton is a great fight town because if you drive long enough on some of these roads, you'll probably see a pretty good street fight.
I had a really hot girlfriend in high school and I'd get into fights over that. And by the time I got into high school, I was moved around into a lot of schools, so I was getting into fights in high school.
My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs.
I don't want to say I was a big Shinya Aoki fan, but it's just that I felt like he got out and was able to do a lot of the tricks that I like to do before I was able to do them. I guess you can say, a little bit jealous in a way that he was making that sort of show before I was.
Give me some real chocolate. Real fighters eat real chocolate.
Martial arts, when I do martial arts, it's more of a life type of training.
I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.
You know what? I've never paid taxes in my life. I'm probably going to go to jail.
I don't have to worry about being a good role model.
My first experience of doing martial arts was weird, real traditional, strange smell with incense burning. We did a lot of bowing, it was a lot of path of least resistance and go with the flow... Really good stuff for when you're at a young age.
Have you ever seen me knock somebody out and make a big scene? Hell no.
The UFC wants me to fight. The people want me to fight. I don't want me to fight.
You don't always come off the way that you want to or look the way you want to. I go out there and just act up and become the evil villain, and I'm calling guys out and stuff. It seems to have worked. I'm getting the fights I want.
As far as MMA, I want to say there's maybe five guys that do jiu-jitsu that have an actual level of understanding when it comes to boxing.
I enjoy fighting here in Japan under the regular Dream/Pride rules with the ring and the whole rules criteria.
I don't care about the Strikeforce belt.
I have a cage at home, I have a cage at all the gyms I train.
I'm fighting hard, I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going and I would really like to give back especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.
I love jiu-jitsu, and I love my team.
I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre.
I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.
I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.
I was always throwing a fit about it, like somebody I was fighting had their hair painted and I would be like, it's not enough that this guy has to win a fight against me, but he's gotta do it with his hair being on blast, like big mohawk. Just a wild man.
I'm not going backwards in this sport ever, especially in pay. Why would I?
I held off on having kids and getting married so I could fight. I gave my life to this.
I do get paid well as an MMA fighter, but this isn't boxing and I feel like we should get paid like this is boxing.
I like the idea of being able to fight my way out of something.
I will tell you right now, I want to fight the No. 1 fighter in the world. I always said that I want to fight the No. 1 fighter.
I think for hundreds of years or for a much longer time, people have been fighting, professional athletes have been fighting in a ring. So it's just the way it should be. There's no sense in making it a cage.
Sometimes I'm like, man, I wish I'd just fall off, so people stop talking about me.
I'm not in love with fighting. I never was.
I've never backed out of a fight in my life. That's not what I do.
Everybody points their finger at me and says that I'm the crazy guy and this thug.
In order to love fighting, I have to hate it.
I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter. I think he's a nice guy just like everybody else, and he's a great role model. I would love to be that too if I was in that position.
I'll fight anywhere.
I have Georges St-Pierre out here telling me 'you really think I'm afraid of you, man?' and I'm like you should be, bro. You should be scared out of your mind. I'll tell you what, I'm scared of him.
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