Quotes About Mindset

It's a job to me, basically. I'm not trying to be the best fighter in the world or nothing like that. I don't come in trying to think I am the best fighter. I don't care about none of that. It's just a job to me.

I'm not fanatical or in love with being an MMA fighter.

I'm not a fighter to score points of fight with time limit.

I'm enjoying my life as a fighter, but more as a human and this is what matters.

I made peace with retirement, but when you're a fighter, you're always a fighter.

I just say to myself I'm going to be a better fighter day to day. That's my thing.

I am not looking at Dec Spelman as if he is a fighter I can just walk through. I don't go out looking for knockouts.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.

I think fans expect fighters to beat each other up, and what I expect out of myself is to stay of trouble.

You can push my buttons all you want and say whatever you want about me, and that's fine... fighters do that.

You have to be tough. All these guys are tough. But at some point, you have to outsmart and outhink and outplan these top fighters.

So many fighters who fight Golovkin have lost before they've entered the ring.

All fighters are pretty confident by nature, that's just how we are.

Some fighters think they're athletes and it's a sport. I know I'm athletic, but I'm a fighter first.

I said in my mind, 'keep fighting.'

Even when I was winning my fights, once it's over, it's over. It's in the past, and you've got to look forward.

I have always believed that you win fights round by round.

The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It's about what's inside - what really is inside.

Sometimes it's kind of strange, and it's definitely something I have to work on in the future, but when I'm big favourite in fights, it's almost like I try too hard and try to force things to happen. That always seems to take a bad turn and makes my performance look bad, even if I win.

I think something that has separated me from the rest of the competition - maybe it's just my way of thinking - I don't necessarily go into fights just wanting to win but to actually dominate. So when I don't feel like I dominate, sometimes I feel like a loser, I guess, you know, maybe in that perspective.

I had always considered myself a martial artist who fights rather than a fighter who learned martial arts - although I probably flowed between those two categories over the years.

Usually if you haven't figured out how you want to play tennis yourself, it is hard to accept the failures of playing five sets.

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.