Quotes About Victory

I've been fighting for Davids versus the Goliaths for 18 years, my entire career.

I got into my first fight, Democrat versus Republican, in second grade. I won.

The Hart Foundation versus The Brain Busters, if you can find that match, it is fantastic.

I was born into long odds. I know what the David versus Goliath story is. My life has been that.

Once you're inside that Octagon, it's one-on-one. Your skill versus his skill. Your heart versus his heart.

For me, I like any win I can get. It doesn't really matter where it is or who it's versus.

Listen... it's one versus 38. You win 10% of the time, you're a Hall of Famer.

I just love pure, uncompromised competition. No ball, no net, no goalie, just one person versus one person, and you can do whatever you have to do to get your hand raised.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

I decided a very long time ago that I would refuse to be defined by trauma and would only be defined by success, when and where it comes.

The reality is that I've been counted out for a very long time and people continue to underestimate me and I continue to overperform.

Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years. And since then, the Democrats haven't lost a single statewide fight.

It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.

If I can be some kind of vessel to show people that, no matter the hard time you experienced, you can still succeed, I want to put out that positive energy to never quit and never give up.

There is no bullet-proof vest in my size.

Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.

As a veteran of many campaigns, I know how important it is not let up in the last few days.

People make a big deal about celebrations and what's appropriate and what's not. But just talking with some veteran guys, I think anytime you get a chance to celebrate with your team, regardless if it's winning the division or winning a series, whatever it is, you take advantage of that.

I don't care if you're a young lion, you're an old lion, you're a veteran, you're in the middle of the pack - I'm top dog. I'm the guy.

It would be nice to finish Khabib via liver shots, wouldn't it? I just want to see him wincing in pain on the ground where he belongs.

People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it - that nothing compares to being champ.

I think I really would have quit if I hadn't gotten 'Inherent Vice'. Or maybe I would have just shriveled up and died.

Even if you play well, you can lose, and vice versa.

Jon Jones is a great champion, but me in my prime, I was devastating. I was vicious. Nobody could stop me. Of course I could beat him in my prime.