Top 92 Quotes & Sayings by Sage Northcutt

I'm getting to put all my time and effort into studying my martial arts and to be the best fighter I can be.

I think me and Mr. Dolph Lundgren look kind of alike.

I started working out and doing martial arts when I was about 4 years old, and I was competing by the time I was five or six. So my mom and dad had me doing push-ups and sit-ups from a very young age.

At the point in a match where most guys would wear out, I'll still be fresh.

I think that we all got to have respect for each other. And we could all be more careful with the things we say.

Being sick is a different story than having an injury. If you have a right arm injury, you can still use the rest of your body. You still have the energy to perform. But when you are sick and can't really get out of bed or walk or even breathe, you're not yourself. You don't have the cardio, strength, speed, or explosion.

People can say what they want. But you can silence a lot of people when you go out there and win.

I was at my house, and me, and my brother, and my sister were kind of just playing around. And I was like, 'I wonder if I can twist this apple and rip it apart?' So I was playing around, and I did it, and I was like, 'Wow, that kind of takes a firm grip.'

You only get one chance to fight in the UFC, and while you have the chance, you might as well take it.

I wanted to study to be a petroleum engineer and get my engineering degree and fight in the UFC at the same time. But unfortunately, to be the best I can be at the UFC, I needed all focus to be there, and more focus, also.

I know I have great grappling myself, and I know how I do with submissions.

When I was nine years old, I was on the cover of 'Sport Karate' magazine.

I always talk about how Georges St-Pierre is my favorite fighter.

A lot of the times, anything that somebody tries to say negative is actually kind of funny.

Obviously, I'm trying to keep improving at everything, from the wrestling to the jiu-jitsu to the striking to the transitions, every part of my MMA aspect.

I feel like I have goals that I set, and I try to accomplish those goals, so no matter what room I step into, I know the direction that I'm wanting to head.

Having full-time classes, it doesn't really work out because there's so much workload and so much studying that you really don't have time to train. I'd stay up until two or three in the morning just studying, and then I'd have to go get a few miles running, work out at the gym super late, and try to get my working out in late at night.

I feel the power in words that you can turn into reality.

Jon Jones is awesome and won his first world title at 23 and 8 months. I believe I can do it before then.

Typically, when someone gets a choke on me, I have a pretty strong neck. It's usually hard to choke me.

I consider my MMA training starting the day I set foot in Urijah Faber's gym.

I'm studying at A&M, and that takes so much hard work, so much dedication, and that effort is very tough.

I might take a little time off from school to train. I'd be a totally different animal if I trained full time.

I'm always looking to go out there and finish my opponents as soon as possible so I can stay safe and protected.

Georges St-Pierre - he's so awesome. It was very great getting to roll around with him and getting to train with him. He's so nice and so friendly, and he's very humble, too.

The new 'Creed 2' movie is coming out, so I was actually going to audition for that. Got a little audition tape, so hopefully that goes through. That would be pretty neat. Being Ivan Drago's son in the movie? That would be pretty fun.

I think for the UFC to re-sign me, that would be something that's great.

The more fights I have in the UFC, the more people I meet, the more opportunities I have to make an impact.

Knowing what God has in store for me - it gives me hope. I kind of feel like God's warrior, pretty much. God's weapon.

What everybody has seen from me is very little compared to what I'm capable of doing.

A lot of people have a lot of things going on in their life. You'll be walking past ten people in the middle of the day and not even notice, but someone might have a family member that died, or someone might be going through a hard time. Sometimes you're the only person that someone might see that lifts them up.

I just want someone who's got a great personality, beautiful, fun to be around.

People see a lot of my standup, and that's what I'm known for since I was trained in karate and kickboxing, but I also have ground game.

I'm a totally different person in training.

Any fighter fighting in the UFC would take the opportunity to take a fight against a YouTuber and stand to make several million dollars.

Everybody who is fighting at UFC 200 is awesome! It's going to be awesome to get to meet everybody. I'm excited.

I'm training to be the champion. I become the champion of whatever I put my mind to, so I believe I will be the champion. I think the UFC will be able to realize that, and we'll see what they say.

I've always thought about welterweight.

I believe coming in early to the UFC gives me an advantage. More time to learn, more time to be in the UFC and get better as a fighter.

I try not to hear anything negative about me, and if I do hear it, I try to block it out.

Mr. Faber is a huge role model. He's a UFC Hall of Famer. He's such a driven person and a champion.

Being in school and doing the fighting stuff, it is very tough. I had school work all the way from Monday through Friday, and then on the weekends, you had homework, engineering projects and stuff. That makes it very tough.

I'm taking it one fight at a time. But I always see myself being victorious.

The UFC offered me a fight against one of the Top-10 fighters named Demian Maia. I believe he was, like, No. 2 at the time. They obviously believed in me to think that I could face one of the best guys in the division.

It can be kind of difficult because of the workload I have at Texas A&M, so I have to find time to study as I pursue my major, but also to travel and compete and train hard for my fights to come in the UFC.

I would like to be the youngest UFC world champion. I believe I can accomplish that.

I'm a bubbly, happy guy.

Whatever Dana White and Joe Silva have planned for me, I'm ready.

What I love the most about being a pro fighter is meeting the people. You get to meet all the fans and new friends that you get to meet up with all the time.

I'm always pretty much smiling.

I'm still trying to figure out being calm.

There's always going to be people saying negative and positive things. If you let all that into you, and you're always contemplating that and thinking about that, I'm sure that can get to you. I try not to do that.

The UFC expects you to perform at your very best. If you're barely training, if you're spending the majority of your time on school, it's impossible to be at your best.

It's an incredible feeling, just to know that you have MMA fans that are behind you and want to know when your next fight will be.

I think that every single fight you have is to prove yourself. Even if you're the world champion, the UFC champion of the world, you're still proving yourself; people are coming to beat you.

I know people want to get out there, and they're all tattooed up, and they're all serious and stuff and ready to fight. I'm ready to fight, but I still have a smile on my face at the same time.

By the time I was 4 or 5, I was doing 250 push-ups and sit-ups a day. When I was 6, we bumped it up to about 500 push-ups and sit-ups a day. Some days it could even be 750 or 1,000.

I really don't listen to any of the negative stuff. Anything that's positive, that's kind of the stuff I'm listening to, and that's kind of what, like, brings you up.

Sylvester Stallone seems like a really cool guy, and Dolph Lundgren seems awesome.

Every day at Team Alpha Male, I'm improving. The biggest thing with that camp is everyone is so positive and has the work ethic to go out there and push the pace and keep going and going and going.