Top 113 Quotes & Sayings by Nick Diaz - Page 2

I just never try to beat somebody on the scorecards. It's never happened. It's not in me, I think.

I may not be able to keep fighting for money for a living, but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.

There's no reason for me to come and fight for fun. I don't do that. That's not what I do.

I'm trying to live life like a normal person.

I'm not out here trying putting on an act like I'm crazy. In my opinion, everyone else is crazy. They're the ones who put on an act for you, doing what they're told in front of the camera.

I'm gonna talk my talk, I'm gonna walk my walk.

I'm a pay-per-view without a title.

Fighting is not something that I enjoy doing. It's something that I do that I feel that I have to do.

I don't like that I'm made out to be this evil person, who needs to be shot down and conquered.

I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.

It's a really complicated road if you're an MMA fighter.

I don't know how they judge fights sometimes.

When someone tells you a fighter's injured and they tell you to go after an injury, it really throws you off.

Everybody wants to do a fight with me, champions at 170, champions at 185.

Don't tell me I'm crazy. I'm out here acting natural.

I don't like to hurt people for fun.

For me, I already fought some of the best people there are. I already did, you know, what I need to do for me.

I like Georges. I'm a fan of Georges St-Pierre. I appreciate everything he does, and how he does everything to win, and it meets the scoring criteria that sucks.

I'd like to be thought of as someone who keeps it real.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who's in tune with what's really going on.

Once I turned pro, I was like okay, this is not fun and games now.

Belts aren't important. It's the fights that are important. Important to the fans, important to the show.

I'm the original Conor McGregor. I'm the original model of Conor McGregor. He wouldn't be who he is if it wasn't for me. Nothing against him. I'm the original real deal.

For the most part, since the time I was in EliteXC fighting, maybe there were one or two fights here and there that they had me to win, but for the most part I've been an underdog. I'm not a kickboxer so I'm going to lose to a kickboxer. I'm not a wrestler, my wrestling sucks, so I'm going to lose to a wrestler.

I've been watching Frank Shamrock fight since the beginning.

I just try to be as healthy as I can, pretty much.

You can't lie to the fans. They know what they want to see.

If anybody wants to fight me they know where to find me. I'm not a hard guy to find. Come get some.

I'm not fanatical or in love with being an MMA fighter.

Every other fighter has a life on the side. I've never had another job.

You know, I'm never really 100-percent in any of those fights, because it's so hard to have perfect preparation for fighting and cutting weight and making 170 pounds, and being in the best shape for training camp and to make that cut.

I think it's rude of the UFC to try and lowball me and expect me to negotiate a deal while I'm training for a fight.

I will always tell the truth.

I don't owe nobody nothing.

I've learned from my mistakes in the past, why I thought I've lost fights before.

People want to see real skill level, real Jiu Jitsu, real boxing, put together and mixed up. They want to see mixed martial arts. They don't want to see five minutes of holding. I think there should be points deducted when you do that.

I don't recommend anybody becoming a fighter.

I don't fight my friends... I don't care how much money you put in front of me, I don't care if you put millions and millions of dollars and you say whatever you want.

I can pass a drug test in eight days with herbal cleansers. I drink 10 pounds of water and sweat out 10 pounds of water every day. I'll be fine.

Someone came up to me and told me that [his opponent's] knee was hurt, and he said to me, attack his knee, I'm like, 'Yeah right, I'm not going out to attack this guy's knee.' It just doesn't … it's not realistic to go after his injury, unless they got a cut the same week, then it's like, yeah, hit him in the eye, because the [expletive] is going to re-open and now you wouldn't fight on the cut. Maybe on a cut you want to take advantage of it, that makes sense.

If you're getting paid more than me, I'm definitely more excited about this ass whoopin I'm gonna put down on you.

I just want to do something big if I do anything at all.

If I had someone buttering me up, maybe I'd have worked out. You don't even know where I came from. Nobody wants to come out here.

I'm not stupid. I can tell what's what.

People say that marijuana is going to hurt my career. On the contrary, my fight career is getting in the way of my marijuana smoking.

My life's a mess. I'm not afraid to admit it.

Im not trying to hate on nobody.I love everybody that works towards what I was working towards.Its a hard game,its a hard life.

Fighters are afraid of conditioning, they are afraid of getting tired, but I don't want to have anxiety or be afraid of anything. I can go 100 percent out there and never have to worry about getting tired. Everybody says fighting is 90 percent mental, and it's true. Knowing you can go 15 minutes or 25 minutes without any problem can help you sustain that mental advantage over your opponent.

I may not be able to keep fighting for money... but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.

I like to think I'm just talkin' in my defense.

Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.

If I have a girlfriend, I don’t bring her to flaunt her. She doesn’t get to reap the benefits of me being famous.

I would just like to be real and be me. It's just really hard to do walking around and everyone knows who I am.