Top 108 Quotes & Sayings by Travis Browne

Barnett is a veteran of the game, but at the same time, I've been fighting guys with a lot of experience my entire career.

If you want to fight, this is what's promised to you. If you agree to it, then I don't feel like you have the right to go back and say, 'They're not paying me that much.' You agreed to it. This is your job. I think that some guys may forget about that a little bit.

In Hawaii, where I'm from, I'm Hapa Haole. It's pretty much if you're mixed blood or have two different ethnicities or even more, you're considered Hapa. It really means half but now it just means mixed.

I was the idiot on the couch, 'I could beat some of these guys!' I would say that about Tim Sylvia. But I was like, 'Freakin' Arlovski, he looks like an athlete.' He looked rock solid.

If you make me mad I'll let you know, but I prefer to do all the talking with my fighting inside the ring.

I had a tough life, and I wanted my kids to have better than what I had.

This is a difficult sport and it's a sport where you have to be prepared for so many eventualities and possibilities. It takes so much time and so much work. And as a guy with a family, there is a lot of sacrifice that must be made.

I had offers to go overseas and play basketball but I turned it down because I wanted to stay local. So I got started in Jiu Jitsu, which was something I could be competitive at.

I create openings, and I move. I fight. It's an art form.

During a round, unless the crowd is quiet, which a lot of times it isn't in my fights, you're standing there and the coach yells, 'One-two, one-two low kick.' Whatever it is, you don't really hear stuff. When you're in a fight and leather is being traded, I mean, are you really going to hear your coach?

Until I have that belt, defended that belt and left a legacy with my name and what I've done in that cage, then I'll have time to relax and take in what I've done.

In any fight that I go into, I don't like to complain about stuff because at the end of the day, a fight's a fight.

I've had to learn fast. I've kind of come up the hard way in this sport and just a sense of my training partners and my coaches and that's been something that I've been having to deal with since day one.

Sometimes guys will come out and just barely squeak by to get a win and then wonder why they don't get a title shot. Who wants to see that?

We go through those dark times and we need someone to lean on.

I don't like the fake stuff that goes on outside the ring.

Since I fought Bigfoot, I've actually become a big fan of his, the way he carries himself and the way he handles himself. You have to respect the guy, with what he's done in the sport. With that said, I'd still love to compete against him and hopefully one day avenge that loss, if that's in the cards.

I'm disliked a lot and it's probably for the wrong reasons.

I feel like every time I train, I'm moving so far forward. I'm constantly evolving.

There's nothing nice about the cage. There's nothing soft about it. It's nasty. You get in there. You get dirty. You get beat up.

There is a reason we fight and for me, it's my family. I never forget them. Never. If I didn't have them, I'm not sure I would be here or if I'd be as good at this as I've become.

I've never said 'no' to a fight and I've always been ready for anything they've thrown my way.

That's the place to be, is on the main card.

Whether friends or family, you know, if we're fighting, then we're fighting. And I have no problem with it.

I think I've put in some work and I've fought some tough guys early in my UFC career in order for me to get in that spot of being on the main card.

As far as Alistair goes, he's got a great fan base, he's a great name fighter, and I look forward to competing against him.

My fights all have great meaning to me because they give me the chance to put myself in a position I probably wouldn't have been in before without all of this. The one thing I won't lack in this business is motivation.

My whole thing is to stay humble and stay confident in my abilities.

I know I'm skillful and capable of finishing fights.

The one thing I've learned about this sport is that it's OK to be selfish at times.

I did protection work with dogs. I trained dogs how to protect their handlers and owners. We'd teach them bite work, how to search buildings and deal with gunfire and stuff like that. Sometimes I'd be the 'bad guy' that dogs would attack in training.

If I could only have one thing in life, it would be for my sons to grow up to become quality men who are interested in doing the right thing. I want them to be highly moral people who care about what is happening in the world around them. The best way to do that as a parent is to set the right example. That's what I try to do.

The people that are around me understand what kind of man that I am.

You hear a lot from the other fighters that have fought in Denver, you see some of the fighters are just gassing out.

I guess you could call me a soccer dad.

I feel like I might have an idea of what goes on at Jackson-Winkeljohn's, but at the same time, that's why Coach Jackson and Coach Winkeljohn are considered some of the best. They're able to game-plan and bring the best out of their athletes.

No matter who I fight, I'm going to be at a disadvantage in the experience department.

I'm an average person, I just decided to work hard and dedicate myself to something. That's the only thing that separates people like me from people sitting on the couch.

I'm going to do what I need to do to win fights.

I was on the couch watching Tim Sylvia beat Ricco Rodriguez, Randy Couture beat Tim Sylvia, and Josh Barnett fight in PRIDE.

People want to see you go out there and be dominant and finish fights.

The title shot, the way I look at it is I just have to go out there and do my job. If I keep winning fights, there's no way they can't give me that title shot.

Fighting is a part of life, right? It's my career and all that kind of stuff.

I'm learning the science behind the sport. I'm learning how to read people.

I want to be the best in this sport because I'm a competitor, but the real reason why is it will be the vehicle to be the family man I want to be.

If you make no excuses, there's nothing holding you back.

Coach Winkeljohn is hell on pads, that guy pushes you so hard.

Dating is for children. Dating is for kids.

I've been learning the ins and outs of the fight game and a little more of the technical side.

People find beauty in the desert. I don't know where they're looking because I haven't found it. It's ugly. It's nasty. It's dirt. It's desert. It's sand. It's rock. It's cactus. It's lizards and snakes.

I'm learning how to fight. Just figuring out what I need to do to further myself.

My choice was to become great, to become better than average.

I've always said it doesn't matter to me who I fight. At the end of the day, on that day, it's work. It's business.

I think it's important for the kids to spend quality time with their parents, and to see their parents happy and loving life, even if it so happens that they live apart. That's a lot better than having them stay together and be miserable.

My relationship with Joe Silva has always been him saying 'hey I want you to fight this day' and it's like alright sounds good. I don't really look at it as an option.

For me, I'm a family man. I absolutely love my family and they're the closest thing to my heart. And to me, that's my life.

Basically, I played basketball for a small college out here in California and when I was done playing college, I settled down and got a job.

Getting a win is nice but you have to have a dominant performance to make a run at that title, I believe.

I'd love to be a coach one day, but before fighting I was into dog training. I was a handler and I really enjoyed that.

I learned as a fighter I know how to go out there and mess somebody.