Top 119 Quotes & Sayings by Rashad Evans - Page 2

When I fight, part of the swagger that I had when I used to fight on the street comes out. When I fought on the street, I used to try to embarrass someone for even wanting to fight me.

MMA embodies a lot of disciplines of sports with footwork and with football, especially with the punching technique you get the hand and eye coordination.

Having a chance to fight for a title is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and I consider myself to be very lucky that I got two chances.

I never want to get content. I never want to think that I'm at a certain spot and I'm gonna stay there, because this organization's hard to stay in, and this is the wrong place to get complacent in.

When you have a training relationship, it's not about winning, it's about making each other better and helping each other.

I'm never gonna please the haters, and I'm not gonna try to.

Working at the hospital, there was a lot of starchy food. I was in good with the lunch lady, so she would hook me up with all kinds of macaroni and cheese and potatoes and that kind of food. I would eat it all night to the part where I hated food. I got pretty big.

It's good to be able to feel appreciated and to be able to know that your efforts and the impact in the sport meant something.

Wrestling is one of the earliest and oldest martial arts there is.

If you grow up with a wrestling coach, you learn differently. If you were late, everything was about push-ups and laps around the gym. I once said, 'Am I on a wrestling team or a damn track team?' That resulted in me running for the entire practice. It gives you a certain mentality.

It was really difficult being away from MMA because it's been a way of life for me for 13 years. But being on the outside and coaching helps you sharpen your skills because you have to explain what you do, why things work and why other things don't.

I'm always interested to watch Chris Leben fight. He just fights from a different place.

The only way I'm going out is unconscious. I'm not a quitter.

I definitely think you should have wrestling in schools.

The hardest thing in the world is to watch someone you love really not be able to get themselves together and really struggle on a level so bad when it seems and it appears that they have it all.

When I go in and fight, I'm not the same guy who is sitting in front of you, who is meeting the fans or anything like that. It's like a split personality.

I had just graduated from Michigan State and I was working at a hospital. I was a security guard, I worked at night. Part of my job was putting bodies in the morgue and doing that kind of thing. I used to put bodies in the morgue and take them out. When I got done doing that at the hospital, in the morning I would work out before I went to sleep.

I love Chuck Liddell. Chuck Liddell is a good friend of mine, actually.

I've been working on my ground game, my jiu jitsu, and my standup as well. Those are areas where I feel like really needs to be cleaned up and areas I know that I can get better.

I'm not really too worried about the mystique of Jon Jones. Because I know Jon Jones' core. I remember when Jon Jones used to come up to me and say, 'Hey man, what's it like when everybody wants to take pictures with you?' So I know Jon Jones.

Rampage's footwork is atrocious. His boxing is slipping. He doesn't take the fight game seriously.

Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.

One thing you understand quickly as a fighter is that you're not punching with eight or 10 oz. Gloves. We've got 4 oz. gloves. It only takes one good shot for a fight to be over.

When people are overlooking somebody like Phil Davis, it's a dangerous thing.

I feel like I can beat Jon Jones. I see some things in his game that I can capitalize on.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

I've had some real hard setbacks in this sport and I learned to realize that you can't really build who you are on what people say. That's ultimately building your foundation in sand.

Being relaxed allowed me to fight the way I'm capable of fighting.

The UFC is not a place for the feint of heart.

I really worked hard to get myself in shape, just from a physical standpoint when you're able to bring your body down and have the discipline to get into shape the way I was, it's really a spiritual journey as well.

All the losses that I had, I think they were important, just because it helped me grow as a fighter, helped me grow as a person.

If you're not chasing gold, you're not really in a place where you should be competing.

When you violate a pact, there's no way I can ever work with you again.

I'm the guy that everybody wants to hate.

You've got so many guys coming up and putting in work, and everybody wants to be in my position, so I gotta be paranoid and think that if I'm not producing, if I'm not going out there and winning fights and winning impressively, I'm gonna be replaced.

I took so many years off my fighting career arguing with Dana, trying to get a fight with Shogun Rua, not trying to fight this guy, trying to do all this stuff. At the end of the day, it didn't really matter much. I just lost time.

I come from nothing. Growing up I didn't really have too much, and I can tap into that anytime that I want to and just remember how bad things were for me growing up and just knowing that I never want to go back there and I don't want my kids to go through it.

I like getting booed.

For the last 14 years or so, I've been a fighter for so long I kind of forgot what it's like to not have this as my biggest form of expression of who I am.

My momma told me a long time ago, 'not everybody has to like you.' And it's very true. I'm ok with that.

As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.

It's about feeling alive in the moment because your adrenaline is going, your thinking about that present moment, you're not somewhere else, you're not thinking about what's going to happen 10 minutes from now, and that's the reason why I love fighting, it's when I'm in there. I feel free, I feel like there's no other place I want t be. I can't even think of anything beyond that second. That's why I'm drawn to the fight, because I love the presence of it, where it brings me mentally, it's the purest thing for me.

One day these will just be memories that I haveso I try to enjoy it as much as possible

All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks...When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.

You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you’re at your weakest.

I don't fight to prove that I'm tough, I know I'm tough. I fight because it's inside of me.

We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.

Life is a celebration… I try to enjoy it as much as possible.

To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.

Before a fight I'm always afraid... before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try to run away from it, but then as I competed more I understood the fact that this is how I'm supposed to feel.

I am a student of whoever I can learn from.

A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things.

To live is to fight. We just fight in different arenas.

I am a student of whoever I can learn from. I don't see myself in position like I'm above anybody else and I can never learn, or no one can ever teach me anything. You learn a lot from guys who are just starting off sometimes.

My main job is to go and have fun. When I do that, everything just seems to fall into place.

I'm a UFC fighter, a macho-type sport. I am a heterosexual guy in a tough macho sport, which is exactly the reason I feel a duty to say I support gay marriage and gay rights. I have nothing to gain personally from supporting this issue, and that's the point. Society as a whole is better when there is equality, and I want to live in a country where everyone has the same rights because we all benefit from that.

My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but still able to smile. See it's one thing to overcome adversity and to be scarred and to carry that with you but when you have somebody overcomes adversity and they're still able to smile that's something else. That's true strength.

Being a great fighter is having a perfect balance of having that toughness, skill, as well as that mental capability to be able to out-think you opponent.

If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.