Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Chuck Liddell

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Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Charles David Liddell is an American former mixed martial artist who was the UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. Liddell had 23 fights in the UFC. He is widely credited with helping bring MMA into the mainstream of American sports and entertainment. On July 10, 2009, he was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame.

American - Athlete | Born: December 17, 1969

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When I'm training at home, I have five meals for the day that I just heat up. It's all planned, and that's what I eat.

Chuck Liddell

I'm not an emotional fighter.

Chuck Liddell

Aldo needed to feel McGregor out. Coming right at him ran into McGregor's game. I thought he'd start by taking him down and confuse him a little. Maybe he had all that stuff planned, but one combo, and Aldo got caught. That happens, especially with a guy as talented and precise and full of power as Conor.

Chuck Liddell

I think some of the most important exercises are all the core exercises that you can do to maximize training in certain areas of your body.

Chuck Liddell

I grew up while I was in college. I learned how to take care of myself. I learned how to prioritize things. I learned how to get things done.

Chuck Liddell

I was in 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' with Jack Nicholson. That was fun. I think I made, like, $33 or something. I got to miss a whole day of school, and when you're a little kid, that's cool.

Chuck Liddell

I try to take two weeks off after a fight and then get back to working out four or five times a week.

Chuck Liddell

I started doing martial arts since I was 12, and then I went into wrestling in college. After I met John Hackleman, I started getting really serious about it, and after a few amateur fights, I got an invite to the UFC and have been in love with it ever since.

Chuck Liddell

I don't read a lot of MMA news. I try to stay out of it.

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I'm one of those guys: I'm out there trying to punch you out and to hurt you, but as soon as I'm done, hopefully there's nothing wrong with you; I'm hoping that you're okay.

Chuck Liddell

You have to learn your own details before you can teach them.

Chuck Liddell

I did well in school, was the captain of the wrestling team and the football team, and always got along well with people, so I'm sure I would have gotten a job in the real world. I probably wouldn't have liked that, though.

Chuck Liddell

Dancing is a lot lower-impact than ultimate fighting, but it takes a lot longer, and I burn the same amount of calories.

Chuck Liddell

If you watch fights cage-side, sometimes different punches look better than others. It's like camera angles. Sometimes some punches look a lot better than they were, and sometimes a solid punch doesn't look good. So it just depends on your angle.

Chuck Liddell

I've never been intimidated by anyone.

Chuck Liddell

Numbers have always come easy to me.

Chuck Liddell

I have absolutely no dancing background. I think I took one swing class when I was in college, with a friend of mine. I think I went twice.

Chuck Liddell

I have a great time with the kids. I'm always happy when they're around.

Chuck Liddell

Conor McGregor has a big mouth. But I do love the way he fights.

Chuck Liddell

People still thank me for the stuff I did for this sport, and I appreciate everything people say.

Chuck Liddell

I try to stay in shape and am always consistently working out.

Chuck Liddell

I'd like to have all of my losses back. But it's too late for that.

Chuck Liddell

I basically follow a modified Zone Diet. I have my food prepared weekly and eat 6 times a day.

Chuck Liddell

I'll take what I can get when I go high with a hook, but the side of the head makes a big target, especially if his hands are down.

Chuck Liddell

We run on the beach some days, and others, we run hills behind the gym. We also do several hours of grappling each week as mixed with some intense cardio in the ring.

Chuck Liddell

I'm a fighter, and I'll always be a fighter, and it's what I love to do.

Chuck Liddell

I eat a balanced diet.

Chuck Liddell

Mountain Dew was my favorite drink through college; it kept me up studying for a lot of tests.

Chuck Liddell

I've got a puncher's chance against anybody.

Chuck Liddell

My whole life, I've been training for something, whether it be baseball or football or wrestling or martial arts.

Chuck Liddell

I was the guy that would cram for everything, so I guess I was a bit of a slacker. I was a procrastinator. I spent a lot of all-nighters getting ready for tests.

Chuck Liddell

I do some weightlifting, a lot of different weight stuff, strength and conditioning stuff, a little bit of everything.

Chuck Liddell

I think, as a fighter, I kept improving. My movements improved, my accuracy improved.

Chuck Liddell

I've never found that getting physical is ever the best response in a bar. You just have to make sure you keep your distance, and if it gets to a point where it gets aggressive, then the best thing to do is go get a bouncer and get the situation resolved intelligently.

Chuck Liddell

I play fantasy football every year.

Chuck Liddell

Totally different challenges, but being a dad and fighting both wear you out.

Chuck Liddell

You can actually find a lot of gyms that do teach mixed martial arts. But it's just like with any martial art - you've got to look at the coaches, go watch some classes, see how people treat each other and how the coaches treat the students.

Chuck Liddell

If I weren't fighting, I'd be in the business world.

Chuck Liddell

I don't ever go into a fight wanting to hurt someone. I just want to show them that I am better than them, and if they get hurt, it's part of the sport.

Chuck Liddell

There's nobody in the world I wouldn't fight.

Chuck Liddell

The worst thing is losing because you got tired, because you didn't work hard enough in training. Ugh, that's the worst.

Chuck Liddell

It's a very complex sport, so judging is going to be very complex, too. And not everyone is going to agree all the time on who wins a fight.

Chuck Liddell

I like Glover Teixeira; he's a former training partner.

Chuck Liddell

It's hard for me to fake smile. I personally think I look stupid fake smiling.

Chuck Liddell

I'm probably not going to be popular with the fighters with this one, but my biggest problem is guys playing it safe. I understand it from a coach's standpoint and a manager's standpoint. I understand why you'd want to play it safe and want to win the fight, win every fight. I get it.

Chuck Liddell

I hate hearing in a UFC corner, 'You won the first four rounds; just stay away from him this round.'

Chuck Liddell

Train hard, get good coaching, and don't forget that its mixed martial arts. Don't get tied into one style of fighting, and focus on multiple disciplines.

Chuck Liddell

My grandpa never got to see me fight. He always thought that I was the best in the world. He always told me that.

Chuck Liddell

When it comes to damage, boxing will cause more damage than MMA ever will.

Chuck Liddell

Someone said Anderson Silva and GSP would be a $12 million fight. I told people that for $12 million, I'd fight them both right now. At the same time. People took that as 'He's going to fight again.' It was a joke. But if you came up with $12 million, yeah, of course I will fight again.

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