Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Stipe Miocic
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
It would be a dream if I was able to fight in Croatia.
When I do become the champion, I'll still be a fire fighter.
I've got a great team around me. They keep me working hard; they keep me focused.
Cro Cop is one of the best in the world and such a great guy. It was awesome to train with him. There's nothing better than working with him, and it was a great experience.
I don't care about history; all I care about is winning.
I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn't be beat, and I actually fell for it.
I'm just happy the city has something to be proud of. The Cavs, the Indians, the Monsters. It just shows that we are the land of champions.
My day job keeps me grounded. When I show up to work, I'm not some star fighter or anything, I'm just Stipe. I'm going to keep working in my hometown as long as I can.
Someone sent me a picture of Werdum on the ground after I hit him... There was 2:16 left, and the area code for Cleveland is 216. They played 'Believeland' that night, and the next day it snowed, and everyone said Hell froze over because the curse was broken.
Junior Dos Santos is one of the best heavyweight fighters of all time, and he has proven it by being a champion. That is something that I want to be in my career, and I understand to achieve that, I have to beat guys like him.
I've fought the best guys in the world, and I've beat the best guys in the world.
I've done things that weren't good, you know, but I made up for my mistakes.
I make no excuses. Stefan Struve was the man that night. He earned his win fair and square.
Of course, fighting's first. That's what I do; that's what pays my bills, you know.
I'm a Cleveland guy, man. I love this city.
I'm never going to change who I am for the UFC.
You can look at it and say I'm doing this better or that better, but the bottom line is, I just learned to be mentally tougher.
At the end of the day, it's a fight, and anything can happen.
I've got the best coaches in the world. I've got confidence in them, and they've got confidence in me.
I'll always be a firefighter, no matter what.
The UFC has a great plan for us. I'm just happy I'm employed by them and can pay my house bills and everything.
Listen, anyone in the heavyweight division in the top ten, there is no easy fight. I don't care what you say.
You are a role model to people. You gotta make sure you're doing the right thing.
I just work hard at everything I do. If there's something I need to learn, I stick to it, I learn it and put everything I have toward it.
Everyone has 4 ounce gloves on, and they're big boys, and they can throw hard.
I do miss the Avalanche. That's the my favorite car of all time, but that Dodge Ram Rebel has overtaken the Avalanche; I just love that truck. It's got good vents in the hood; there's no running boards underneath, so I can go Baja-ing if I want to, off-roading.
I'm the best in the division. I know I am.
I told you I'm the best in the world.
I'm going to be the champion for a long time.
I'm not scared to go to the ground. I've been wrestling my whole life. I've done a lot of jiu jitsu, but I like standing up, and every fight starts there.
I am always going to be the same guy. The fireman that lives in Cleveland.
I'm going to do what I want to do. If he wants to go to the ground, that's fine. I'm a wrestler.
All you can do is the same as any other fight: whoever they put in front of you, you go in there and try to get the W.
I think I train too hard.
I love baseball and love the Indians and all the teams here.
When I become champion, you know, I'll never stop being a firefighter.
Listen man, Andrei Arlovski is a tough guy, but he hasn't fought the caliber of opponents I've been fighting.
Fabio Maldonado jumped up to heavyweight for our fight, and while he wasn't ranked, he is a super-tough dude and had never been knocked out before.
Listen, I'm the champ, and I'm not going to pick and choose who I fight.
In the fight with Hunt, all I can say is it was a good night for me. I'm happy to get out of there without taking too much damage, and I'd take that every time.
Saving people, helping people, is just something I always wanted to do.
I'm always the underdog, but I don't mind that.
I do my days at the station and then get my training in.
I'm hungrier than all of them. They didn't put in the effort that I did to get the title. So I don't care what it takes - I'm not giving up that title. I worked too hard to get it, and I'm not going to lose it.
Anthony 'Rumble' Johnson hits hard. You gotta watch out for him. He's got hammers as fists.
I think everyone has knockout power. I mean, it's the heavyweight division.
I just want to work hard and have good fights.
I've got power. I don't throw hard every time. I just throw shots.
Whoever they want me to fight, I'm going to fight. So I really don't care.
I just want to fight. That's all I want.
When my wife was getting a lease for her Jeep Cherokee, and I saw a Dodge Ram Sport, I thought, 'Oh wow, it's amazing.'
There is still so much room for me to get better. Everyone in this sport evolves so quickly. You could take six months off and come back to a totally different game. That's why I'm always in the gym working. Even if I don't have a fight lined up, I'm still in there working to improve my overall game.
Cleveland people are crazy; that's why I live here.
I love this city. There's Cleveland pride in it for me. Everyone has each other's backs here.
I traded my 2002 Silverado in for the Trailblazer, and after my second fight, I got a win bonus. It was the knockout-of-the-night bonus, $50,000, and I paid the rest of my car off, and I gave it to my mother because I had a sponsorship with a Chevy dealership.
I like being the underdog. I like turning around and shutting people up when they tell me I can't.
I trained for about a year before I had my first amateur fight. I won by knockout, and then, for my second fight, the guy didn't even show up.
I'm actually pretty frugal with my money.
I like winning, and I worked too hard to get where am at now. I'm not giving it up.
I never thought I would get so much support, and it means the world to me. Nothing could ever get better than that.
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