Quotes About Adversity

I haven't fought with crystal-clear vision my whole life.

I have always fought top guys.

I lost my first professional fight, but came back and won fights until I fought for the world title.

Even if everything its detractors say about Fox were true, the most liberal of liberal attitudes would be that one would get credit for being in the lion's den.

I'm on all the channels. I'm on every channel. Not just Fox. I'm even on the channels that attack me all the time.

Even if 'Bruises' had done a fraction of what it did, I would have thought that was class.

I fractured my left foot.

In all my time in England, I have never come up against a fragile Man United team.

The BBC called me 'defiant' in a caption. I plan to frame and put it on my wall.

We all wish we could stay with one franchise and it work out the way it work out but it doesn't necessarily work that way, but you've got to keep balling.

I got to share the Octagon with Clay Guida. I got to share the Octagon with Cub Swanson. Now I'm going to share the Octagon with Frankie Edgar. These are things that, as a fighter, you always dream of.

Anderson Silva kind of took the best part of Rich Franklin out of his soul, and he was never the same again.

Frankly, sometimes you have to go into the belly of the beast, as they say, and take on some of these individuals even if they're entirely unprofessional, like Tucker Carlson.

In some ways, trying to win cups is more fraught than trying to win the league, as one really bad night and everything comes crashing down.

Before these fights, everything in your body freaks out like it's saying, 'No... don't do this,' but you still make that walk and do it. Going through those things and coming out on the other side, no matter how the fight turns out, is a win.

I can't freeze when I go in the cage.

I am frequently attacked.

What happened with Gutknecht does frequently cross my mind, but I can't do anything about my situation. I need to carry on boxing so that's what I've been doing.

I got expelled from high school my freshman year.

In business or in life, focus on the things over which you do have some control. And don't fret about all the other problems. Most of the time, they don't come true anyway!

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

I am very driven by things that scare and frighten me, and things that might be tough for me.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.