Quotes About Commitment

My last year of football I started having a couple of MMA fights, and bringing the weight down. It started in the pre-season of football, just to keep fit, and I did really well.

When you have a fighter willing to do that, when he is seriously hurt and in pain but still fights, you've got a dangerous man on your hands.

I just take the fights and do what I love.

In Strikeforce, we're committed to putting on the best fights that we can.

When I train for fights, my kids understand, and they have my back. They are there with me.

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

My brothers first brought me to boxing. I dedicate the fights to them and my father and fight for my family.

I don't want to be one of those guys who fights until they're 38, 40 years old. I don't want to put my wife through that, and I don't want to put my kids through that.

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.

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

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.

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.

One hundred fights and I will stop.

I never pull out of the fights.

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

If you want something badly enough, you'll figure it out.

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.

So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.

My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.

I have figured out it's not what you do on the field, it's how many games you play in.