Quotes from Tim Kennedy

I'm not hard to find unless you're ISIS - then, it's a rough night.

When you're in Ranger School, it sucks. You're not eating; you're not sleeping. You're marching miles - for months at a time. It's horrible.

Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time.

Fighting is a lonely thing. You train with your team. You bleed with them. You trust your coaches, but ultimately, you are in the cage alone.

I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.

I think the most rewarding thing is going over and being deployed and having done meaningful things.

I've been part of task forces hunting the most evil humans to walk the face of this planet. I believe all of that was for a reason, because I love America.

Fighting is a very independent thing, and it's not a team sport, and it's not the NFL, you know, because we don't have to look the same.

I don't need MMA, but I love fighting. Those are very different things.

I think obstacle courses in general are a blast, and I love the Green Beret one; I've done it - I don't know - 20, 30, 40 times. I'm always trying to break my time from the last one or use a new technique to get through a certain obstacle.

I love fighting and will always have the heart of a fighter.

I will always have that, 'I want to be the best fighter on the planet' thing in me.

Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class.

Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward.

That's part of my military character, I think. You back one of us into a corner, and you can only expect one thing: us coming at you like wild, rabid dogs.

What's the definition of terrorism? It's to achieve an objective through the use of force and fear. These are just nasty, evil, disgusting human beings who disrespect human life.

If you've been hit, if you've been put down, if you've lost, that next time you come out, you have to make a testament: you have to make a demonstration, a showing, that it's not going to happen again.

MMA in an individual sport, and you're just pushing yourself to be as dangerous as you can be in 15 minutes.

I love the idea of what America is. America is a bunch of people that do these incredible, thankless, selfless jobs that nobody really knows about that makes that American dream possible.

I'm an eight-year Green Beret, Ranger, sniper.

I'm a Christian, and I give the glory to God.

It's a good thing I have another job because the UFC doesn't pay very well.

I wish that everyone that's complaining about how things are here would shut their mouth for a little bit, go around the world and see how it is everywhere else.

I have no problem putting on a kit, carrying a big sniper rifle, and running a few thousand meters.