Quotes About Aggression

As a fighter, I'm not one of those people that wants to prove I can go out and throw strikes.

I just love striking.

My striking isn't the prettiest, and I hit really hard.

I understand everything Ronda Rousey is gonna bring that day. I don't think she's gonna be able to deal with my striking. She's gonna be really surprised when I touch her, when I connect on my punches.

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).

If I play a more aggressive, stronger guy, I often go through my day feeling a bit better than when I play somebody who's not.

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

I sometimes lose my calm for a moment, but only when I notice that an opponent is deliberately trying to injure me.

People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.

I break people's faces. I break their arms. I break their legs. That's a part of the sport. That's my job. That's the job of the opponent who's trying to do the same thing to me.

The point in tennis is to take the ball as early as possible and take time away from your opponent.

Only few people have same level as Iron Sheik - the Brock Lesnar and the Kurt Angle. Back in the day, they both be good opponent for me. They know I could break their ankle if I want.

I don't respect any opponent when I'm in the ring.

I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.

I'd say I'm a front foot defender; I never hesitate to go in for a challenge. You have to get one over your opponent and dominate them.

As a player, I loved being tackled, whether it was in training or in a game. I took a full-blooded challenge as an invitation to do exactly the same thing to an opponent. I would wait for my opportunity and nine times out of 10, I would get him back.

I never really have a game plan other than to finish my opponent as quickly as possible.

You have to get one above your opponent; being on the front foot allows you to do that. It allows you to dominate them.

The only thing that matters to me is to hit my opponent and do whatever it takes to knock him out.

When I get the opportunity to get the ball, I've got to destroy my opponent.

This is show business. I know that winning is super important and a gameplan is super important, but at some point you have to, this is the hurt business and you gotta to try to put your opponent out.

I broke people's bones, tore muscles, ribs, faces, inflicted some serious and heavy damages to my opponents, etc... I got hurt myself, too, from serious attacks.

I don't have any ill will towards any of my opponents. I understand we are the highest calibre of athlete in this sport, and we will both go and give it our all. But I don't want anyone to misinterpret what I am saying: when we step into that octagon and we touch gloves, I am going to break his face.