Quotes About Perseverance

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.

In the military, we just don't leave fights.

You just go out there, you've got to keep training, keeping training as hard as you can and keep winning fights. The only thing that's real is the fight. Everything else is fake.

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

That's what it's all about in MMA, we're not the highest paid athletes in the world, so when you can get the big money fights you have to take them.

As soon as I found MMA, I knew that this is what I wanted to do, and it gave me focus because I was good at it anyway, and it gave me a goal to reach. I kept winning my fights, and it's given me a goal and a career opportunity.

I don't want any freebie fights.

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.

I've been through Strikeforce, UFC now, but I never leave fights busted up.

To cement your name, you've got to go after the biggest fights.

I have fights where I thought I'm going to destroy the guy and then I had a very tough fight, I had fights where the guy's a big name and I win in the first minute.

The people who know me, the fans who've watched my fights, they know what I'm about. They know that I'm going to give 100 percent of everything I have each and every time I get into the octagon.

I'm a fighter. I don't say no to fights.

I will always fight tough fights, and that's what I need in order to get to the belt.

I got in a lot of fights growing up, and not just basketball fights.

I have had 100 fights and I am very proud.

Very few people can reach 100 fights.

After 99 fights, I don't fight for the passion of boxing.

I think 113 fights are really enough.

One hundred fights and I will stop.

I never pull out of the fights.

I've taken fights when others wouldn't.

I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.