Top 1200 Fights Quotes & Sayings

I had to fight those type of fights which were high risk, low reward and at the start, I never could get the fights I really wanted.

The fights I've learned the most were always the fights I lost.

I want to make great fights, emotional fights, for all my fans and everyone watching.

I used to go to fights in Japan, mega shows at soccer stadiums. They would have all kinds of martial arts fights in one night.

Fights are fights. It's a cliche, but it's true, you can never know how they'll go down for sure until you do it.

These kinds of fights, these big fights that get everyone talking and interested, these are the fights I want.

It's been frustrating. Since I've broken into the top five, I've seen the politics of fighters dodging fights, cherry picking fights and this that and the other.

I've finished fights from my feet, I've finished fights with my ground-and-pound, and I've finished fights from my back with a submission, from top with submission. You name it, and I've finished a fight that way.

I mean, I've had fights with random guys, I drove to fights by myself cutting weight, no corners whatsoever. So I've had a very interesting MMA journey.

I need to take fights, and I expect to win all my fights, whether it's higher ranked or lower ranked.

Look at my track record for showing up to fights. Look at my track record of finishing fights. Look at my track record of getting fight night bonuses. Ask yourself if you think that if the UFC decided to truly put marketing dollars behind me that they couldn't sell me or my fights.

I don't watch every fight; I am not huge on watching fights on TV. Because I did it my whole life. But I do watch the big fights. I follow the little fights too, sometimes; I just don't have to watch every single fight that happens.

Dream fights are just what fans are talking about. We need to see fights that people are actually supposed to see.

If you look back at my fights, if you pick three or four fights in a row, it's possible if you watch my style I'm fighting a different type of style every single fight.

People know what to expect from me. When it comes to Roderick Strong, you're going to get everything that I have in my being, and there will be fights that will be like no other fights of the night.

I never turn down fights. Anybody who follows my career knows that I accept fights.

It's great to be boxing a local boxer. The atmosphere is always fantastic. I love those fights. I really relish those fights.

Saying that fights in Japan were fixed and that me, along with other guys like Silva, Minotauro, etc., did not win those fights legitimately is an ultimate and absurd nonsense.

A good man fights for himself. A great man fights for everyone else

I'm a firm believer that I'll make fights happen, get the fights done.

Hopefully in 2011 the fans will get to see some fights that they want to see. Manny Pacquiao Vs. Floyd Mayweather needs to happen, and so does David Haye Vs. Wladimir Klitschko. The fans deserve to see fights that they want to see and not just the fights that the promoters want to see.

I did a lot of smoker fights and fought pretty much every week since Pat wouldn't let me fight until he was sure I was ready. I was also boxing and so I had 30 unofficial fights or more of those.

I think a lot of people miss what I've done in the MMA world. How I was able to market and control the industry so that people wanted to watch my fights. If you look at the fights I've been involved in - in the SEG UFC, in Japan, for Zuffa and today, they have been fights that have turned companies around.

If the fights that I take make sense, and there is not a 27-year-old number one contender in the world, then I'll probably be interested in doing fights that make sense and fights that are marketable.

I had 33 kickboxing fights, 37 MMA fights, plus 44 amateur boxing fights, which most of them were international. I will keep fighting as long as I feel good, but I will repeat once more, any fight could be the last one.

I don't watch a lot of featherweight fights yet some of those fights are the best fights ever.

Street fights are unpredictable, dirty fights.

We too have arguments, but we don't really have any fights. Aamir and I don't carry our fights home.

I got in a lot of fights growing up, and not just basketball fights.

Sometimes our fights are as strong as a current, as consistent as waves and as stubborn as unmoveable rocks. Martial fights cause the same kind of erosion as powerful waves do when they hit the shore

I see all my hard fights as title fights. Every time I go in there, I'm fighting for my life.

There are major fights for me in the middleweight division. Those are the fights I want and I've been very vocal about it.

I never picked fights. I'm never going to start to pick fights. If they ask me to fight someone, I'll say yes.

Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.

I need those meaningful fights, the fights that everyone wants to see. That would help my legacy a long way.

I think of all my fights as title fights. I don't think about what can come up afterwards.

Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of complicated weapons; he fights for ends remote in time.

I was introduced to fighting by my brother - he's a tattooer, a tough guy - and I completely fell in love with it. I was watching fights on YouTube all the time. I would go to parties to watch UFC fights.

Hurd puts on entertaining fights, I put on entertaining fights. Let's bang it out, let's rumble.

We've seen the true colours of Bisping; they come out after he fights. He likes to spit on people after fights.

The only thing Kevin Lee does better than me is talk and sell fights like that. I sell fights my own way, inside the cage.

People don't understand: I've had 37 fights, three to five fights every year, for 17 years. That does something to somebody. These suspensions are the only vacations I've ever had.

Oh you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting!

Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend life... and fights to defend pride.

Anybody in Britain, the big fights. I'm here for the big fights. I don't care about the little fights any more.

In a democracy, hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can’t otherwise win their fights through elections, can’t win their fights in Congress, can’t win their fights for the Presidency, and can’t win their fights in Courts. For this right-wing minority, hostage-taking is all they have left – a last gasp of those who cannot cope with the realities of our democracy.

All of my fights, especially all of my UFC fights my whole career, I've never been in there without any kind of impingement and pain wrong with my back.

Some of my fights in PRIDE, I felt tired. I would train on the punching bag and feel great but then get tired in my fights.

I've been in many street fights. I fought street fights for my friends to protect them.

I'm in this game to give the fans proper fights, fights they will remember.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.

You don't compare a guy with 30 or 40 fights with a guy who had 200 fights and fought over 25 years.

The first am fight I had, I was 10 yrs. old. I didn't count, but as far as I remember, it was approximately 350 fights. It was a lot of fights.

Once I'm world Champion we can think about what fights are fun rather than fights that need to take place.

It is a common thing for supporters of President Trump, even as early as when he was a candidate, to say, 'He fights.' And yes, he does fight. He fights everyone. He gets into all kinds of scraps that are pointless and unnecessary. He insults when he doesn't need to.

I just want fights like that. Fights that get me excited. Fights that are going to be exciting.

Let's go back to super-fights. Let's put on fights that are great live or on television.

I was offered the Kovalev fight in 2018 but my manager and promoter agreed it wasn't the right time for me to be challenging for a world title then. I needed a few more tuneup fights, learning fights, and I'm fine with that.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

In the midst of having great fights, sometimes you have good fights and sometimes you just have a fight.