Top 687 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Mixed Martial Artists - Page 11

The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard.

As a fighter, you want fair treatment.

When you've been through that, a fight just doesn't seem that cataclysmic.

I want to show in a violent sport like our sport, you don't need to hurt anybody in order to win.

I joke all the time with my friends.

New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management.

Our fears don't stop death, they stop life.

I loved Pluto. I was totally fascinated by Pluto. When I started in astronomy, I started looking at this region of the sky because I thought it was so interesting out there.

My advice to the college kids would be make sure you get your degree and then go after the dream.

I'm more than just a fighter, I'm an entertainer, I like to entertain people.

You see, where I'm from, fighting is simply not a 'girl's thing.' In Umuarama, I grew up playing football, which to my family was also not a girl's thing, to be honest. Playing football was my biggest passion. I wanted to be on TV, to be just like Marta. I even had a knack for it.

Yea, I really don't lift much during training camp, I just focus on strength and conditioning, but in the time off, that's where I'll really hit the squats and the dead lifts. That's when I tend to put on some weight, get to about 230lbs.

Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we bring a clarity of awareness in seeing what's just an ordinary thought and what's a judging thought that's pejorative or putting us down in some way. So, we first bring that lens of awareness, and then we can do all kinds of different strategies. We can inquire.

I'm one of the tiniest 135ers.

It was two fights: the fight itself, and the fight to be able to see. That's one of the reasons why I stopped fighting.

Ken Shamrock is the World's Most Dangerous Man? Maybe behind the wheel of a car.

I've been pioneering for this sport since before there was weight classes and gloves.

To me, when you're not as hungry to train hard and learn new things and get better as you once were, I think it's time to stop.

Look, there’s no such thing as the master division to me. I’m going to compete as an adult until I realize I can no longer handle the new kids’ pace. Right now–at 28 years of age, Ican’t see myself stopping until I’m 34, 35 years old.

On a regular day, something is hurting. It varies more or less. Seems like I heal pretty quickly and get over stuff, or I'm just used to dealing with stuff.

If you talk to somebody else, they can say whatever they want about you, but I'm pretty secure with what I've done and my fights. Win or lose, it's all experience, and it shapes the person you are and the instructor you are.

Pressure is the way a predator fights.

You can have a whole warehouse full of weapons, but if someone attacks you need to get that weapon fast. If you have to run to the warehouse and look around, you're going to get killed. You're better off with a little backpack of weapons instead of that warehouse.

They test NFL players for brain trauma. They track them for the life of their career and even outside of their career. So I've done all the MRIs and testing with them.

If I'm tired one day, then I'll take the day off instead of pushing through it, because then that's when you hurt yourself.

The more I bleed, the better I fight

To truly try is to give all you have, when you have nothing left.

Physical strength (hard work), mental strength (perseverance) and spiritual strength (love & acceptance) are the keys to continuous growth.

MMA was built on exciting fighters where people try to end each other.

It's blows me away how much attention there is to the way I move in the Octagon when announcing as I've been moving this way for years.

MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.

My dad never told me that when he was serving in World War II he had gotten married at a young age.

Do your best... really that's all you can ask for from an athlete.

I think we're infinite beings. We have to stay limitless.

Generating exciting new ideas burns 325 calories per hour and has no carbs. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Rambling aimlessly about a point that someone has already made burns only 3 calories per hour.

All these tough times that I've had in my career, I've just been able to prove that I can persevere and to me that means everything.

I don't like fights that go to decision.

Don't limit yourself and don't let anyone put a limit on your potential.

I grew up in East St. Louis so I wanted to play baseball as a kid. Then I moved to Nebraska and became a football fan and wanted to play football. But I've always been fighting. Growing up in East St. Louis was hard. You had to fight there.

At one point, I had 10 UFC fights under my belt. But at the same time, I had no money and no house to live in.

I think Valentina is the best pound-for-pound in the UFC.

When you're really tested, that's what shows you who you are as a person.

I think there will be some people who think I did a great job, some people who will think, 'Hey, for a guy who did this for his first time, he didn't do too bad,' and some people will be like, 'Rich Franklin sucks.' It doesn't matter what you do, you will always have people on every side of that spectrum, so I would imagine for me it wouldn't be any different.

Believe in your own potential for greatness.

Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.

Believe that you can even as a single individual, you can change the world.

In the future, I'd like to break more into acting and stuff. I think that pro wrestling is a great springboard, really. You see a lot of guys coming from that world. In a lot of ways, it's like live theater. Guys going out there and performing and having to act on the fly and be their own stuntmen at the same time.

I think the day of retirement will come when I go out there and do everything I was supposed to do and I still can't perform. I'm going out there and I'm a danger to myself, then it stresses your family out.

When I'm an old dude in a rocking chair, I'll have these great war stories.

Each person may see a fight in different ways... They can see more to a primal way. Others they can see in a pure artistic way... For me I see the pure artistic way, the way that a true martial artist can show his art.

I have to trust my trainers 100 percent.

Whatever you sexual orientation is, it doesn't affect how you work or who you are or what you do.

I played baseball a little bit and ran some track. I was a catcher at one point and I was at shortstop.

I'd like to thank Dariel pasta.

I hope to be remembered one day as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, fighter in MMA history.

I walk around about 175-180 pounds, and get up to about 185.

When I entered the UFC, there was only the bantamweight division. I had some good fights there, and then I decided to go to the strawweight division, where I became a champion.

When it's not training time, I just do my own thing. I go home and hang out with my family, kick back and [don't] think about the fight too much. I just look at it as another opportunity in my life to move up.

Being a coach, I got to go home every day, [then] go out at night and have fun. I could pretty much live my normal life.

My goal is to win the belt, whoever it's on. I'm not gonna settle for anything less.