Quotes About Focus

I think I'm one of the hardest-training fighters in the world.

I am one of the very few fighters who doesn't read any type of media.

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.

Some fighters think they're athletes and it's a sport. I know I'm athletic, but I'm a fighter first.

Fighting is my whole life, the UFC is my whole life.

At one point in my life, I felt as if fighting was everything. It was everything. I put life second.

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.

I think only about fights. Not about anything else anymore - just about fights.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Anybody in Britain, the big fights. I'm here for the big fights. I don't care about the little fights any more.

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.

My goal is to win and to finish fights quickly.

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.

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

Music is a job, but I figured out ways to get my mind into a place where I could be creative. I actually discovered meditation. It enabled me to clear my mind of all the drama and focus on the music.

Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game - if I put everything into the fight business - then I would eventually run the fight business.

I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.