Quotes About Perseverance

The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It's about what's inside - what really is inside.

With the fights I have lost, I always want another shot and think that I can beat them.

The first am fight I had, I was 10 yrs. old. I didn't count, but as far as I remember, it was approximately 350 fights. It was a lot of fights.

I need to take fights, and I expect to win all my fights, whether it's higher ranked or lower ranked.

Two good, large fights a year is good enough for me.

Too many guys are over here begging for people and trying to chase people to fight, this and that, begging for money fights. You become your own damn money fight.

Everyone doubted I could go 10 rounds because my fights have stopped early. But I knew I could because of the work I'd done in the gym.

I have wrestling. Yes, I do; my background is wrestling. I have knockout power. Just because I don't go out there and use it all, you don't have to use it all to win fights.

If you paid me $2 million, I'm sure I could lose my belly. But I don't get paid to look a certain way. I get paid to win fights. That's what I concentrate on.

There's always something getting in the way - other fights being made or money and politics ruining things - but after I finish Chisora, nobody can deny me my shot.

People say I don't have the experience. I might not have 20 MMA fights, but I've been fighting my whole life.

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

I was just want to get some good fights and as many as possible.

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

I can't tell you how many fights I had where I had to pay to go fight. It was a lot of them.

I have been part of fights where we have been told, 'You will not win,' and we have won.

I've been in a few fights where I keep drilling guys - Carl Froch, those sort of people - and they just keep coming.

I had a lot of fights in high school.

Back in the day, you used to have to fight three or four fights in one night with no dodging nobody, and that's what the sport got built on.

Basically, I guess they just thinking I've been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I've been winning my fights on heart.

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

I always wanted to become a student of the game and at least get six to eight fights before coming to the UFC.

I like to fight tough fights.

All of my fights, especially all of my UFC fights my whole career, I've never been in there without any kind of impingement and pain wrong with my back.