Quotes About Adversity

I've had a lot of fights, and they haven't all gone my way.

The guys that I beat in the 'Super Six,' every one of those fights was tough, even if I did dominate some.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

I'm attracted to fights.

For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.

When you have a fighter willing to do that, when he is seriously hurt and in pain but still fights, you've got a dangerous man on your hands.

Sometimes you're going to win close fights, and that's the way it is.

There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fight.

I've beaten a lot of great fighters, but people say the big ones, I've lost them all. I don't want to go down as a guy who loses his big fights.

As far as losing fights, that's part of the sport.

I've been in so many street fights.

I started very young... I learned my martial arts first in the street. There were always fights. That's the culture in Brazil.

In my fights, it's not if I get hit; it's when I get hit.

Guys get hurt in fights. It doesn't mean you stop a fight every time somebody gets hurt.

I had a lot of fights in high school.

I ask for the fights. Sometimes I get them. Sometimes I don't.

Boxing's a funny business and sometimes different fights come along at different times.

I like to fight tough fights.

I want the biggest fights possible. If guys don't want to fight me, then I can't get them. But it's not on me.

I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.

I used to stay getting in fights.

I want the biggest fights possible.

I don't take easy fights.

Man, I'm gonna tell you something about Evander Holyfield, when he fights a guy like me and I fight I guy like him, we always bring the best out of each other so by no means should anyone out there ever think that a fight like that is a cake walk because it's not.