Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Andrei Arlovski

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Belarusian mixed martial artist Andrei Arlovski.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Andrei Arlovski

Andrei Arlovski is a Belarusian-American professional mixed martial artist, actor and former UFC Heavyweight Champion. He currently competes in the Heavyweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and holds the record for most wins (23) in UFC heavyweight history. Arlovski has also competed for Strikeforce, WSOF, Affliction, EliteXC, ONE FC and M-1 Challenge.

I don't need to prove anybody. I don't need to show anything. Just all I want to do is really good.
When I found out I was fighting Tim Sylvia it was the best day of my life. I don't like him, I don't respect him and I will have no problem kicking him in the head and stomping on his body. It will be fun.
I want to be the best and I want to fight the best fighters. — © Andrei Arlovski
I want to be the best and I want to fight the best fighters.
All my opponents are tough, but the one opponent who was most difficult for me was Pedro Rizzo.
Sometimes I was a little bit - not cocky, but not so nice, you know?
I have to trust my trainers 100 percent.
It doesn't matter how much it's going to cost me, what I have to do, sooner or later, anyway, I'm going to have what I want.
I don't really care what people said that Arlovski should retire.
I try to fight like a lightweight.
I'm like Nike, just do it.
Every time I've had a very important fight for me I did something stupid and paid for it.
Every morning, when I wake up in camp, I remember what I want. I want to be champion of the world again.
No more flying knees against Fedor Emelianenko, no more getting back with my hands down like how it was against Rogers. I just can't do that anymore.
I love training hard. — © Andrei Arlovski
I love training hard.
I try to be fast on my feet.
Just trying to, with age, you have to decide what's more important for you, choose what's more important for you as a person, father, husband.
I showed my chin was fine when I fought Tim Sylvia in the Philippines, when our fight was a no contest. He landed a good straight right hand at the end of the first round and I was fine. I survived and knocked him out.
Everybody has his own destiny.
I don't want to fight in UFC just because I was a champion in UFC. I'm gonna have to earn it. It's gonna have to be how I fight.
I want to fight as long as possible and of course I want to be a champion.
I'm very stubborn.
When I left in 2007, it was the same thing for me when I fought in different organizations. I left the UFC on good terms and I had nothing bad to say about Dana White or anyone else. It was a business decision at the time and I'm glad they brought me back.
I still have, like, at age 40, I'm training more than I used to train when I was 25.
I like to read books and listen to music.
I want to be champion again and I'll get it one fight at a time.
If I can be heavyweight champion of boxing, I have to try. That is why I want to train myself in professional boxing.
After I lost to Kharitonov, some of my trainers said, 'You should retire. Arlovski's done.' The most embarrassing thing for me was that people that I trusted, they didn't tell me right to my face. They made some gossip behind my back.
Definitely I don't want to be a punching bag for some other fighters who's gonna make some name, records off of me.
Young blood keeps you alive. It's keep you on your tippy toes.
I don't need to prove anything to anybody.
As a fighter, from my fighting experience a problem for me was I never too much stick with my game plan.
What my losses made me think was that I needed to take my career more seriously and to train right.
People say, 'Arlovski is done. No more fire in his eyes.' I try to prove to those guys that they're wrong.
I have to test myself against Fedor. I have a lot of people behind me and I'll do all that's possible to beat him.
I am a fighter and I like to fight and I like to get paid.
Everybody who beat me, I want a rematch.
As usual sparring goes: men represent strikes, touch each other, but do not tend to cause real damage to the partner.
After my loss to Rogers, I had a meeting with all my trainers and they kind of gave me the ultimatum that you have to do it our way, or you have to look for some different trainers. And now I've become more discipline.
I lost my fight against Brett Rogers because... I didn't follow my game plan. — © Andrei Arlovski
I lost my fight against Brett Rogers because... I didn't follow my game plan.
I didn't stick with my game plan, I didn't take Rogers serious and the result, he knocked me out in less than 20 seconds.
I have improved my kickboxing, and I am very good on the ground.
From every life experience, fighting experience, I took the right lessons.
Greg Jackson gave me hope after four losses. After my last loss in the Strikeforce grand prix against Kharitonov, I gave him a call and asked him if he thought I should retire. Some of my trainers, some people told me I had lost it. He said, 'Absolutely not. Just come to Albuquerque,' and gave me that hope.
The heavyweight division, if you land a good, good punch in the right place, everybody is going to fall.
When I'm not training for a next fight I love to spend time with my friends and go to night clubs.
I have liked to listen to European dancing music.
Tim Sylvia is 6-foot-8, 265, and Fedor beat him, so that showed that size doesn't make a big difference.
I remember the feeling of being on top of the world.
My body and my mind let me fight, let me train hard, so I'm a blessed person. — © Andrei Arlovski
My body and my mind let me fight, let me train hard, so I'm a blessed person.
In the past, the main problem for me was sticking with the game plan.
First of all, my beautiful wife... she lets me do what I love to do.
I had a chance to work with Cain Velasquez, Mike Kyle and this was great. And I remember how Bob Cook all the time he did conditioning, yell all the time, 'You have to do better.' He pushed me all the time so I really appreciate him. It was a great experience for me.
MMA keeps growing and now I think it's more popular than professional boxing.
My lifestyle is completely different from what it was before, I am not 23 years old anymore, I am focused on training and fighting, not night clubs and partying.
I know for a fact that I have to keep winning and train hard and listen to my coaches.
I paid too much attention to boxing. I wanted to try professional boxing. That's why I didn't focus on wrestling and jiu-jitsu, and it hurt me.
I don't know how the crowd is going to react in my fight against 'Bigfoot.' I think they are going to be on his side, but a few people I know are going to be on my side, so I wanna fight for those people.
I love fighting.
Be smart, fight smart and stick to the game plan.
I try to show good technique - boxing technique, wrestling technique, jiu jitsu technique.
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