Quotes About Competition

At 135 I always floated too close to my actual weight. I was always trying to keep my weight up to 135. And every time I faced off with an opponent, I could never believe how large they were after they blew up after weigh-ins. I would always just be the same size.

Our objective is always to do something that hasn't been done before, but the opponent has a lot of say over how that works out.

If I can't defend my opponent and if he scores as much I'm scoring then he won the matchup.

I don't care if it's someone cutting down from heavyweight, or moving up from middleweight to light heavyweight. It's just another opponent, and I have to do a great job.

You normally can capitalize when your opponent makes mistakes, but at Talladega, you can't.

I like to keep things exciting. Every minute of the fight, I'm trying to finish my opponent.

No matter what I think about Matt Hughes, and it's not much, he's a dangerous opponent.

It is special to win any game, regardless of the opponent.

I'd say I love the challenge of game-planning for the opponent every week.

When you're in there with a top-level opponent, it's supposed to be a close, action-packed fight.

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

I've said many times I don't want to pick opponents, and I don't want the UFC to pick opponents to give me an easier route, or anyone else.

We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last season that they can be dangerous opponents if we lose our concentration for a moment.

I like my opponents the way I like my steaks - in bunches.

To be respectful to opponents is to play hard against them.

Even after defeating India, I still have the highest respect for them as opponents.

I think it's normal that, the first time you meet Federer or Murray or Djokovic, you're going to get nervous. But after a while, they become normal opponents, people you see every week. That's the way you have to think. You can't think of them as legends. When you see someone on court, you have to treat every opponent the same way.

You cannot choose your opponents.

We know from experience that anything can happen in games against strong opponents; nuances can make the difference.

If I play at cards, I want to win and, coming into the games, I want to win, always, with the best result, with the respect to our opponents.

I fought three opponents in one night two or three times, but never five rounds.

Usually with my opponents, I don't care if they win the lottery or they die.

I think that there are always these opponents that you circle back to that you have made some sort of legacy with and I feel Buddy Murphy is that for me.

To stay in the UFC while fighting top opponents... tell me one easy fight I had in the UFC. I have a history in the UFC.