Quotes from Chuck Liddell

I've always said that when I retire, I'll decide in the training room and not after a fight.

If I weren't fighting, I'd be in the business world.

You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.

Everyone says I drive like my grandfather, but that's not always a good thing because he didn't always watch the road because he'd talk to you and look at you. He was a deputy sheriff, a cop, for a long time. So he was always looking around, checking out other things, other than what's directly in front of him.

Everyone is on a fair playing field. It's safer for athletes, it's safer for the fighters - it's just a safer thing for fighters. So I think the USADA thing is good.

I never expected it, but I've gotten paid a lot to do what I love. There are no complaints.

I do some weightlifting, a lot of different weight stuff, strength and conditioning stuff, a little bit of everything.

I try to stay in shape and am always consistently working out.

When it comes to damage, boxing will cause more damage than MMA ever will.

I grew up while I was in college. I learned how to take care of myself. I learned how to prioritize things. I learned how to get things done.

Aldo needed to feel McGregor out. Coming right at him ran into McGregor's game. I thought he'd start by taking him down and confuse him a little. Maybe he had all that stuff planned, but one combo, and Aldo got caught. That happens, especially with a guy as talented and precise and full of power as Conor.

'Dancing with the Stars' was hard work. It was interesting and fun, too, but it was hard work.

You have to learn your own details before you can teach them.

I eat a balanced diet.

I'll take what I can get when I go high with a hook, but the side of the head makes a big target, especially if his hands are down.

When I throw the hook, I think of my arm as a whip with a rock attached to the end.

I've got a family, and I get to enjoy my family, and I get to do different things, trying the movie thing a little bit.

I've never found that getting physical is ever the best response in a bar. You just have to make sure you keep your distance, and if it gets to a point where it gets aggressive, then the best thing to do is go get a bouncer and get the situation resolved intelligently.

The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.

I have had people that I was doing some promotion stuff with go, 'You know, we had an idea. We should have, like, a legends fight.' It's always that. That conversation always comes up when we're talking about doing some promotion for a company or helping them promote their league.

I'm a fighter, and I'll always be a fighter, and it's what I love to do.

I'm not an emotional fighter.

I like aggressive fighters who will come after me.

People got to understand, the fighters at the top are the fighters that are supposed to get paid because they're the guys that are bringing people in, bringing eyes to the TV, getting pay-per-views buys, and putting people in the seats. I mean, that's what it comes down to.