Quotes About Strategy

I don't necessarily think fighters should fight killers every time, but at some point in time, fighters should be fighting the best in their division, period.

I think the best fighters are the smart guys. They do what they are good at. They're smart about what they do.

Fighters no longer manage themselves: they have a whole team behind them. A fighter has a manager, an agent, a Hollywood agent - they got this and that. And on top of that, they've got their whole team of coaches.

You have to be tough. All these guys are tough. But at some point, you have to outsmart and outhink and outplan these top fighters.

MMA was built on exciting fighters where people try to end each other.

Every time the Octagon door closes everything that is written on paper doesn't matter, it depends on who does a better job. It's two fighters; they have legs, they have elbows and they have feet.

You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.

Logically money is important in a boxer's career. That is why one fights.

All of my fights, I try to end the fight. That's my style.

I have always believed that you win fights round by round.

There are times and places for tune-ups and stay-busy fights.

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

I've got to pick my fights at the right time.

In an age of reckonings, when so many bills have come due, Obama has made the case for an America that can no longer do it all. It must pick its fights.

I believe that our party, the Democratic party, must be a party that fights fire with fire.

I like big fights.

Style makes fights; I've always said it.

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.

The most important thing is to win fights. It doesn't matter how you do it.

I think something that has separated me from the rest of the competition - maybe it's just my way of thinking - I don't necessarily go into fights just wanting to win but to actually dominate. So when I don't feel like I dominate, sometimes I feel like a loser, I guess, you know, maybe in that perspective.

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

There are always a couple of ways you envision fights going; you always envision a win and a great finish.

My goal is to win and to finish fights quickly.

Maybe I lose my fights because I don't fight smart.