Top 120 Sparring Quotes & Sayings

When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that - it was a heavenly sound to me.

When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.

Sparring is not as tough as a fight.

I've done a lot of rounds with Teofimo Lopez, sparring in Miami - so I know about him.

When I get into the Octagon I look at it as another sparring session kind of.

I am always in the gym sparring. I look at every fight kind of like a sparring match.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

The standard is the same. Don't get me wrong, the main difference is the number of sparring partners. Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn are the best coaches in the world in my opinion and in many other people's opinion but it really it comes down to the number of sparring partners. I go to my gym and I have 10 fighters fighting on the local level but when you go over there it's like 30 fighters all fighting in the UFC or other bigger shows. That's really the main thing; the numbers.

The one thing I can't get enough of is boxing. I love sparring in the ring or just doing the training, and it's easily one of the most effective ways of keeping off fat.

Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously.

Honestly, I'm destroying people in sparring, but for some reason I haven't been able to show my full potential in the UFC.

I actually take karate and tae-kwon-do. And so I love sparring and grappling and all that physical stuff. I studied a hybrid form of grappling, sparring, and self defense; it's more of a 'get yourself in shape,' and if you want to take it to the next level, so you're really learning valuable skills with self defense, and I really enjoy it.

As usual sparring goes: men represent strikes, touch each other, but do not tend to cause real damage to the partner.

I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.

If you look after yourself, keep yourself healthy and have good sparring, there shouldn't be any issues regarding ring rust.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

I was sparring with Dan Christison, a big heavyweight. I threw a leg kick and broke my fibula. Before the Florian training camp.

Each time I'm training and sparring, I'm always pushing myself to submit my training partners.

You're just taking punishment every day, getting hit all the time. That's something we're going to cut back on. I'll train hard but the sparring will be cut in half.

I don't enjoy sparring with the audience. It devastates me.

I'm more vicious in sparring when I am around 160 pounds or coming down from heavier than that.

Good cardio helps in any athletic practice, but in jujitsu, it has been very helpful late in a sparring session where a long roll starts to take its toll on your cardio.

I sometimes look on YouTube and see people label videos 'Anthony Yarde sparring his trainer Ade' but that is not sparring, that's just practice. We practice getting attacked, countering and attacking your opponent back, in intelligent ways.

What I remember most about the 'Road' movies is my enjoyment at watching the two characters sparring with each other. But more important than that was my feeling that Hope and Crosby were enjoying the sparring, too.

For my whole career, I didn't have sparring partners. I was frustrated when I came to the UFC because, after a few minutes of the first round, I would feel dead because I had no sparring partners.

Now I am training with sparring partners who are nice people, sure, but not my friends. These are sparring partners who want to knock me out in sparring. In the Croatian media, they said it was 'life and death' sparring - it was not quite life and death, but it was all-out fighting, very hard.

The Courtroom is a battlefield, and oral argument requires a fair amount of verbal jousting and sparring with the Justices.

We have coaches to pay, trainers, different sparring partners. There's a cost.

You try to make your sparring sessions as realistic as possible.

When most people think of Tae Kwon Do - which, in the United States, is not all that often - they think of sparring, a form of competition that both men and women perform at the Olympics.

Sparring with southpaws have been different but nothing to worry me.

I bring in the hardest sparring partners you can imagine and I'm going through the guys.

I was invited to have a private sparring session with Royce Gracie. This was 1992, a year before the first UFC. It was just me and him in a room on the mat.

I've spent a lot of time encouraging, corralling, protecting, and sparring with creative people.

For me it's my biggest sporting achievement being Conor McGregor's sparring partner.

I'm hungry, but I have a good team around me. Good coaches and good sparring partners.

We risk our health much more during fights and sparring than by getting infected with coronavirus.

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

I remember I did a boxing class. I remember sparring one time, and the guy smacked me right in the nose, and I was just like, 'What is this? No. No. None of that.

I spar in the gym, and I take pride in my sparring. But I'm a better fighter when the lights come on because it's right now - there is no tomorrow.

What people have to realise is that it's not the fights that are really hard; it is the training camps. It's living away from home for 12 weeks. It's sparring with guys who are told they will get £1,000 cash if they can drop me.

I was nobody; I showed up to sparring in a white wife beater and Hawaiian shorts. I had plimsolls; I didn't have boxing shoes. It just shows you don't need to have fancy equipment or experience: you're either a good fighter, or you're not.

I have my coach, Urijah Faber. He's watching me do everything pretty much all the time. I'm training or grappling or sparring live. He's over there making adjustments. He's really hands on, so that makes a big difference.

I could be sparring mates and you're meant to hit 'em, but we'll be sparring and usually I try and stop at the face, or I don't really try and follow through, but sometimes they walk into them and I say 'oh sorry mate.' They get angry and say 'we're sparring get into it,' but I dunno, I think I'm so used to saying sorry.

Sparring is probably the best cardio, but strength training is the best way to prevent the kind of injuries that come from roadwork and sparring.

I had the greatest sparring partners, I had the greatest sparring team. And these guys they wrapped me up a lot. I never got the chance to get off on them.

We always train with heavier sparring partners to make it harder so the fight will be easier.

I've trained hundreds of hundreds of rounds of sparring at American Top Team.

There are two kinds of magic. If you think of it like martial arts, there's sparring, where you are doing it with a partner, and the other is kata, where you're doing an exposition for the audience.

I have showed things in sparring and camp that I don't show in fights.

This is a full-contact sport. It's the objective to disable your opponent, even if sparring or a real fight. You've got to use your technique.

I can be the nice family man at home, and then when I go to the gym, maybe sparring with someone, I switch into beast mode. It ain't pretty.

Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn't mean there's any personal animosity.

I will never let another man disrespect me. I don't care if we sparring or fighting.

When you know yourself that you've come through preparation injury free and you've done everything, you've done the work in the gym and the rounds of sparring, it fills you with confidence.

For me, it's very hard to train too much, just sparring, sparring, sparring. It's boring.

I ruptured my bicep tendon in a sparring session.

Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.

I do much less sparring and always with the purpose of working on something in particular.

I've mixed sparring partners up. I've done tons upon tons of rounds with big, heavy lumps who are trying to take my head off.