Quotes About Athletics

My dad played football, too, in the former Yugoslavia.

It doesn't get much more Arkansas than being a former Arkansas Razorback football player.

If you talk to my former coaches, they'll tell you that I'm really smart on the football field.

Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.

There's never been a southpaw fighter to make it five rounds with me. These are championship fights, and most of them can't even make it out of the normal rounds. Fought Chael Sonnen, TKOed him in round one. Fought Vitor Belfort. He made it to round four when I ended up submitting him.

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

I fought Chad Mendes to make sure I was in the top five.

I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.

I've fought the best in the world.

I usually fight a lot. 2015, I fought three times. I fought three of the best guys in the entire world.

I'd probably be, like, a 2-to-1 favorite over Woodley if we fought.

In the year 2013, I fought six times. I fought four times in two-and-a-half months.

I've fought on some big cards. I've fought in some big arenas, on televised cards, pay-per-view cards, whatever.

I fought probably 23 or 24 times when I was over in China, in a year.

I would have loved to have fought 15-rounders, because I always come on strong at the end.

Even in my first year in the UFC I fought five times in the year.

I've fought in London. I've fought in Los Angeles. I've fought in New York.

I fought a long time ago in Canada, I fought a Croatian guy, I don't remember his name, but there I had a size advantage. At the end, I explained to him about cutting weight. He didn't know about weight-cutting, so I explained to him, and I was bigger than him at that time.

Any of the shows I've ever fought on, they always want to have me back because I always have the fight of the night performance.

I have never fought in my life but I can be very angry, especially on the pitch.

I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.

If people don't know what a punter is in football, they're not going to know what a fourth down kicker is, either.

I'm a lot more comfortable knowing that like the body frame, like these 160-pounders, I'm still a lot bigger than those guys. I'm stronger, I'm faster.

I have a big frame to fend off some defenders and buy some time as I wait for guys to get open.