Top 125 Quotes & Sayings by Robbie Lawler - Page 2

Drew McFedries was the hardest hitter I've ever been around. A big, strong, athletic guy with power. He didn't have to hit you with a hard shot or load up - even the little short shots could hurt you.

It doesn't matter who I'm facing. I'm concentrating on myself.

I've always loved to fight. I love what I do, and that is why I've been doing it for so long. I really enjoy fighting and competing at a high level. I love getting in there and getting after it.

Adidas is one of the biggest companies in the world. To have a company like that, a mainstream company, a major sports company, to say they want me, it's awesome.

No one ever wants fight of the night. Every fight I've gone in, I want knockout of the night. I want to be in and out quick. Sometimes, these guys just have a lot of grit - they're highly trained, and I just can't get them out of there, so I get fight of the night.

I don't fight for my legacy or for the glory or anything like that. The feedback from the fans is nice, don't get me wrong; it's a good feeling having them - you on their side. But I'm motivated by making a good living for my family, and that's what made me get serious about this.

I've actually done a really good job listening to my body, relaxing. Some days you train hard, some days you rest a little bit.

Sometimes when you are winning, you don't see your flaws; you don't see what you are not good at.

Everyone's out there trying to take what's mine, and they're going to have to fight me for it.

Everyone's got an opinion, and not all of them are good ones.

I'm not gonna tell any man what he should do in life.

I know you can't fight forever, and there's only so long you can do this.

Even when you lose, you get better. Sometimes when you lose, you win.

I don't like going to decisions. I always try to finish people, knock them out, beat them up, and that's always the game plan.

Winning fires me up.

I always believed in myself, and even in the bad times, when I'd do bits of greatness here and there, it was those kinds of things that kept me alive and helped me to get to where I am now.

Every day, I need to get better. I need to get stronger. I need to get faster.

To take what I have, they're going to have to have more than skill and technique. It's a lot of heart, a lot of determination. That's just who I am. I'm not messing around out there. I'm not giving it away.

My coaches have done a good job of tightening my skills, where I can dictate a little bit more where the fight is going.

It's nice that fans want to see me fight. It definitely helps and gets everyone excited. It gets the UFC excited, and they are quick to put me back in there. But I really just focus on myself and getting ready to fight.

When push comes to shove, I'm a fighter, and I'm going to force someone to fight. It takes a lot of technique, it takes a lot of skill, but to take that, and make something of it, it's a lot of heart and a lot of determination, and that's something I have. That's who I am.

My coaches do all the breakdowns of my opponents, and I leave that up to them.

The basics win fights.

I just want to be a better fighter, plain and simple.

You don't appreciate what you have when it all comes to you real quick. I went from nothing to everything all at once.

I was getting a lot of good work with my wrestling up in Iowa, but I needed a more all-around game, striking, jiu-jitsu at a high level. I had a lot of good coaches out at ATT to work with. They pushed me. Everything was smarter. Everything was precise.

I don't worry about who they're putting in front of me. Why would I? That's just nonsense for me to waste my energy.

If you look at all aspects of all sports, everything comes down to basics and fundamentals.

I want to go out there and be clean in my performances and showcase great knockouts.

The best part about being a champion is going out and defending your belt, so that's what I plan on doing and doing it many times.

My techniques are basics, but my willingness to be in the pocket and see things is very high level.

Sometimes spectacular things look really great, but when push comes to shove come fifth round, the basics, fundamentals and technical aspects are going to come into effect.

Woodley has tremendous athleticism, brings a lot of technique - well-rounded fighter.

I'm just willing to do a lot, take a lot, and force people into a fight. That's something a lot of people aren't ready to do. Some people are.

There wasn't much money in this sport when I started, but I didn't get into it because of money. I loved to fight, and I loved MMA.

You can only stay at a high level so long before you need to rest your body.

I don't really think about or pay any mind to what everyone thinks about my fighting style or if they watch me fight; I just concentrate on myself.

I met Pat Militich when I was a junior in high school when I was 16 and just started training and went from there. I went to the same high school that Pat had attended and he would bring some of his fighters out to wrestling practice to work out and I got to know him that way. I immediately like it.

I don't need to do all the trash talking. I try to do it with my fists, my knees, and my feet.

My parents were divorced and my dad was in the Marines. I lived in California until I was 10 then we moved to Bettendorf, Iowa when I was in the fourth grade. I had an older brother so it made it a little easier to adjust to things.

I also watched boxing all the time and Tuesday Night Fights on USA and just kept hitting my heavy back in the garage.

I had never thought about being a professional fighter but meeting Pat [ Militich ] and the guys just pushed me in that direction.

I've been through a lot of ups and downs. Just willing to get back up and grind every day to try and get better.

It's about falling down and getting back up.

Get back up when you're knocked down.

You don't really realize the effect those things have on you when you're growing up but then when you look back you can see how they molded you.

Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.

I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around.

I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.

The sport in 2000 wasn't as big as it is now [in 2008].

It's all about... getting back up and getting back to work and striving to be the best you can be.

I just try to keep getting better every day, and that's all I can do.

I did a lot of smoker fights and fought pretty much every week since Pat wouldn't let me fight until he was sure I was ready. I was also boxing and so I had 30 unofficial fights or more of those.

You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.

What I've learned from those losses... Priceless.

It's about being able to go through the grind, willing to get back up when you're knocked down. And when life's not going well, not getting down on yourself and just getting back up and getting back to work, and striving to be the best you can be.

A lot of military kids make a lot of moves but I only made the one, so it wasn't really an issue for me.

I did takwondo from the time I was pretty young and also played I did taekwondo for martial arts and then also played football, baseball, and basketball against older kids because of my brother being older. I learned pretty quickly to not be intimidated and to not back down.

I remember coming across some DVDs of the UFC and so I started watching that and became a fan of it. It was a little boring because of all the grabbing and holding and I fast-forwarded through a lot of it, but I still watched because I like martial arts.

It's all about getting better and controlling the things that you can control, which is getting better day to day.