Top 73 Quotes & Sayings by Tim Kennedy
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class.
I remember every moment of every gunfight I've ever been in.
MMA in an individual sport, and you're just pushing yourself to be as dangerous as you can be in 15 minutes.
I make, like, three or four times more when I don't fight than when I do fight. And, I'm one of the higher-paid guys in the UFC, which is remarkably tragic and pathetic.
I love fighting and will always have the heart of a fighter.
What's the definition of terrorism? It's to achieve an objective through the use of force and fear. These are just nasty, evil, disgusting human beings who disrespect human life.
You're always going to get an honest, straightforward response from me. Honest to a fault.
I freaking hate liars.
I want to earn a top-contender status in the UFC, so I have to fight the best.
I hate it when anyone in the gym can deadlift more than me.
Fighting is a very independent thing, and it's not a team sport, and it's not the NFL, you know, because we don't have to look the same.
I love to deadlift, and it's a huge part of my training because it works every muscle in the body.
I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.
If we are ever going to rescue our nation from selfish entitlement, political correctness, and collectivism, we must start sending citizen-statesman warriors to fight for us in Washington, and I believe Col. Maness will do just that.
I'm competitive when I fight, but I don't get emotionally involved.
I'm the guy that is always in shape.
Find something bigger than yourself and pour every ounce of who you are into it. If that's your family, be the best father on Earth. If you are a cop, firefighter, or a trash man, be the best.
No matter what I do, it's all about the workouts. When I travel, I make sure I get my workout in first. When I'm in camp for a fight, I don't travel at all, and I train three times a day. The secret is to just keep working.
Watching everybody have such a fantastic time, loving life, loving America - I wish that was the feeling year-round, that it didn't take the Fourth of July for us to be like, 'Yeah, America is awesome.'
Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward.
I got my hand slapped for talking about fighter pay. That was a big one. I had Dana White yell at me in front of, like, 20 other fighters.
If you've been hit, if you've been put down, if you've lost, that next time you come out, you have to make a testament: you have to make a demonstration, a showing, that it's not going to happen again.
I have a pretty amazing life. Even back-to-back deployments - Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey - it's still pretty rewarding.
I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband.
People want to hear what I do with Special Forces, as a ranger, as a sniper. And I'm like 'What does that have to do with fighting?' Let's talk about fighting. They couldn't be more different; there's nothing similar about them.
Everyone knows who I am; everyone respects me as a shooter, as an operator, as a soldier... I'm always truthful, I'm always honest, and I'm always trying to do the right thing.
I'm an eight-year Green Beret, Ranger, sniper.
I love the idea of what America is. America is a bunch of people that do these incredible, thankless, selfless jobs that nobody really knows about that makes that American dream possible.
I've been part of task forces hunting the most evil humans to walk the face of this planet. I believe all of that was for a reason, because I love America.
I wish that everyone that's complaining about how things are here would shut their mouth for a little bit, go around the world and see how it is everywhere else.
I'm the guy that once graduated Ranger School - a place that starves you and denies you sleep for over two months - and took a fight six days later in the IFL and won.
The people that are close to me, the people that I spend most of my time with, they're all really like-minded people.
My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.
I know I'm not a marquee name, and I'm looked past by most guys.
If Katie Couric or Anderson Cooper asked me to come on to their shows and give them content every single day, I would do it because that gives me access to a huge population of people that I can hopefully, in some way, plant seeds in fertile soil, and those seeds would grow into oak trees of freedom.
I'm not perfect - I'm human, and I can make mistakes - but I'm always going to fight clean; I'm always going to go out there and try to put on a good show.
Michael Bisping, we had a five round battle. I beat him for five rounds and tripled the amount of strikes landed. I landed more take-downs in that fight than had been landed on him in his entire career.
There are some parallels between 'Zombieland' and 'Range 15,' except 'Zombieland,' with Woody Harrelson, there's this pleasurable fun in every scene.
I'm not hard to find unless you're ISIS - then, it's a rough night.
I'm against torture. I'm also against terrorism.
When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it's kinda cute... A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don't. It's not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do.
That's part of my military character, I think. You back one of us into a corner, and you can only expect one thing: us coming at you like wild, rabid dogs.
I'm very disciplined in the approach I take for my training.
I'm a Christian, and I give the glory to God.
You should be falling asleep before your head hits the pillow because you worked so hard every moment of the day.
Kettlebells are the best for everything. We do snatches and swings with them for explosiveness and hamstring and lower back strength, and we'll also throw them into conditioning circuits where I'll do a burpee holding the kettlebells and transition into a 2-handed snatch.
It's a good thing I have another job because the UFC doesn't pay very well.
I think obstacle courses in general are a blast, and I love the Green Beret one; I've done it - I don't know - 20, 30, 40 times. I'm always trying to break my time from the last one or use a new technique to get through a certain obstacle.
My military service has nothing to do with what I do in the ring.
I was deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq with British Special Forces Units. I have great respect for the British military and the country as a whole, so I don't have anything negative to say about that.
MMA has a referee, and you're wearing gloves. I'm in there with another volunteering participant that's out there to win some prize money.
You could waterboard me for days - for years - and I would still be cracking jokes about how bad Rachel Maddow is.
I will always have that, 'I want to be the best fighter on the planet' thing in me.
Carlos Condit does the best job of being the counterstriking guy that is very elusive.
I have no problem putting on a kit, carrying a big sniper rifle, and running a few thousand meters.
Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time.
Who would I be to be cowering to a bunch of gutless cowards acting like a bunch of tough guys online?
I'm endorsing Col. Maness for United States Senate because of his deeply held commitment to the constitutional rights and principles our nation was founded upon.
I want to thank the military community for their support. I'll never be able to explain how much you motivated me and how much I always tried to make you proud.
I've fought guys that I like. When you're fighting a guy that you don't like, you have to be able to separate certain aspects of it.
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