Quotes About Competition

If I'm number one in the world, it's for a reason. People can talk about the cardio all they want, but the results show it. So people behind me, they have to have really, really bad cardio also.

That's just the way the cards fall in the UFC. It's about what's going to make them the most money. It's not about what makes the most sense.

The AAU doesn't care about the athletes; why should I care about them?

I really didn't want to enter the UFC in a fight that nobody really cared about or where people thought I was just going to whoop some guy.

I never cared for stuff like the All-Star Game.

There comes a time in our careers that you get that one guy. That guy that just makes your blood boil. That really pulls the savage out of you.

You have to be very careful when you let someone win.

Wladimir, the Klitschkos, they're amazing. I like to watch them fight, especially Wladimir, but it's kind of boring. They are really good at what they do, but they are very careful.

The NFL cares about one thing, and that's the NFL. That's the bottom line.

Everywhere you look these days you see Carolina athletes.

Every time France has the chance of doing something big in the world of sport, it always carries it off well.

Since I fought Bigfoot, I've actually become a big fan of his, the way he carries himself and the way he handles himself. You have to respect the guy, with what he's done in the sport. With that said, I'd still love to compete against him and hopefully one day avenge that loss, if that's in the cards.

Bollywood is a business more than an art industry. One has to play the game others play to carve your own path.

There will always be cases where one player plays, and another doesn't.

In most cases, in this sport, for guys to advance in this sport, you gotta fight. If you don't fight, you're not making it, because it's too competitive.

I relate football with boxing, with a street fight. In both cases there is always one moment, a second, in which someone shows fear in their eyes, in their body. In football it's exactly the same.

I prefer to win a game and lose other 2 rather than draw 3 games. Both cases you get 3 points.

Every sport has its own cast of characters.

For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

I love 'Takeshi's Castle.'

Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.

I can't be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.

I want a rematch with Cat Zingano.

I'm a big cat. I'm 6-5. I'm not worried about weight. Nobody's coming to see a weight fight. They're coming to see the Big Dog fight.