Top 687 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Mixed Martial Artists - Page 12

My whole style of wrestling is I like to use the truck double. It's basically a tackle for MMA.

Fundamentally I am a wrestler and like being on top and I like my grounding and pounding.

I would beat Michael Bisping. I would jab his face the whole night. Easy.

Me, I want the 'W,' but I want to do it excitingly.

As much as a disappointment this was, I can only learn from it and become a better fighter.

I feel really well at the flyweight division.

Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.

For some reason I didn't have a lot of social skills, I didn't date a lot of girls. I always had the thing where I was in love with one girl.

I personally don't like eating animals. I'm not the kind of person that tries to preach to other people. But, for me, I don't feel right about doing it. That's the main reason why I stay vegetarian...I know the guys that have switched [to vegetarian] all swear by it-they say they love how it makes them feel.

I got fat but I was happy.

I try to stay calm and I try to enjoy myself as I perform these actions so I perform them with minimal stress on my body.

Before the fight I don't like to talk a lot of crap about my opponents, it's nothing personal, when it comes to interviews or anything like that. But once I get in there, I make it personal. This is my livelihood, my life is either going to go up or go down depending on what happens right here, so it's really personal. I make that guy my enemy.

I wouldn't mind going back to Japan and fight. That's what my heart really wants to do.

Listen I'm not going into a fight with Matt Hughes thinking that this guy is done. There's a reason the guy is going to be a Hall of Famer.

It's almost impossible to take my right hand on the chin and keep standing, and I knew that.

The concept of USADA is not bad.

I visualize my hand raised at the end, and every thing in between is just having fun.

I don't have anything against Jon Jones. We are fighters and we do whatever we want with our lives.

You always see the guys who go, 'Walk away from a fight,' and people look at him and go, 'You're not really a fighter anyways. Are you walking away because you're strong or because of your cowardice?'

I'm obviously going to own up that I cheated and I got caught.

The best part of being on the platform that we are is being able to influence and affect so many people.

A brave man, a real fighter is not measured by how many times he falls, but how many times he stands up.

To lead other people is to be able to impact them in a positive way: mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically.

I'm a traditional martial artist and I'm always going to carry myself in the most respectful way I can.

I don't like nicknames, to be honest.

I don't take a guy down just to hold him, I look for damage and submissions.

There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.