Quotes About Victory

For a passer that's probably the key, having the Jonathan Cheechoos, the Glen Murrays, the Joe Pavelskis, the Patty Marleaus, the list goes on and on and on the guys that I've played with over the years who put the puck in the back of the net.

I just want to keep the Puerto Rican tradition of champions alive.

I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.

The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked.

All the big fights in the past they would say 'Rocky won't do this or that' and I pulled it off.

I'm a football fan in general. I'm always pulling for a good game.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

Everyone knows my style - I jam my hips in, jam their head into the mat and punch their head through the canvas.

You have to punch hard for knockouts, and to beat me, you have to knock me out.

Thiago Santos is a guy who can take your belt from you with one punch.

Any punch can end a fight, so there's no easy fight.

My character isn't supposed to be flashy and be over-the-top. I'm supposed to be dirty in the ring. I'm supposed to kick and punch, and I'm supposed to cheat and find ways to win at all costs.

It's MMA - anything can happen. You can throw a punch from one knee, a punch from anywhere.

Scoring two goals to win a game will hurt an opponent more than a punch in the face.

Miocic has that knockout punch. I was completely dizzy a few moments when we fought.

You win some, you lose some. You get hit you don't get hit, but it's not about how hard you get hit. I think it's about how hard you get hit, then still get up and deliver an even harder punch. I think that's what it is all about.

I know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.

Like when I fought Akebono - six foot eight, 490 pounds. Before the fight, everyone's like 'Man, you're crazy. You're out of your mind. How are you going to fight a guy that big, there's no way you can take him down. You cannot punch him out. You're out of your mind.' After the fight, everybody was like 'Oh come on, he's big and fat.' Really?

The thing is that anybody in the heavyweight division can be champion any day just because of one punch.

Anything can happen in the Octagon, so of course, we all want to win, but I know it's a sport, so one punch can make you lose.

Yeah, I miss that feeling of knocking somebody clean out. There's nothing like it when you go into a fight and you just take 'em up out of there with just one punch. It's just the best feeling in the world.

If I hit Khan, he's going down. If the punch is in the right place, he won't get up. I can knock him out with one right hand.

What is a 'lucky punch?' Who do these people think I was trying to punch in the face if not Georges? Seriously - where did the luck come into it? I got him hurt and didn't let him off the hook.

I'm not punch drunk.