Quotes About Weight

I used to be 400 pounds.

I can easily cut 10 to 15 pounds without feeling like I'm killing myself.

I can eat whatever I want, and I don't get over 145 pounds. A lot of the guys who fight at 125 pounds, they get pretty big, and when it gets closer to the fight, they're walking around at 135 pounds. For me, I try to stay the same weight I typically walk around at.

My first opportunity in the UFC was to cut to 140 pounds. This was too tough for me, but by me going through that, it opened the door for a 145-pound division.

I wrestled at 165 pounds in college. I would actually cut from 205 pounds down to 165, and it wasn't really a big deal for me. With me wrestling all of the time, my body got used to it.

I can easily fill out at 135 pounds and feel good.

After a weigh-in, you drink and put on the pounds. But it's just fluid, not muscle, so you get in the ring and feel flat.

Guys like me can put on 10-15 pounds in a week.

I was fighting at 125 pounds when I was 15 years old... then became a champion at 126 pounds at 25 years old.

I want the big money fights if I'm going to make 147 pounds.

I'm open to fighting at 185 or 205 pounds, but I think I need to give this 185-pound run a real, honest crack. Being at this weight class has definitely made me into a different fighter.

I lost ten pounds while shooting 'Faults' somehow and by the end of the shoot people were basically handing me stuff to eat in between takes.

As a featherweight I was walking around at 155 pounds and would just have to cut those 10 extra pounds. I wasn't being very professional.

I think growing into a frame is important, not being - in my case - 160-170 pounds.

I think the first contest I did, I was somewhere just over 300 pounds. With my frame, I needed to add more weight and put more muscle on to get better leverage and be more successful. Just to get stronger, really. I had to work really hard.

I like to try to play around 223, 220 pounds. It's a comfortable playing weight.

When I was born, I was 10.5 pounds. My dad said I was like a little rock. It's stuck with me ever since.

Although I do have advantages in the division, 154 pounds is getting kind of tough to make.

I walk around about 175-180 pounds, and get up to about 185.

If I was 120 pounds, I still ain't going white-water rafting.

I'd probably be the most unintimidating three-hole hitter in the league at 150 pounds.

You can only get away with fighting as the lighter guy in a weight class for so long. That's what I was doing at 170 pounds.

I'm not a big man and never was. I came in at about 243 pounds and I played at times up to 260 so there was nothing I could have done to match the size of the defensive tackles.

My natural body weight is about 183 pounds. I've just always tried to keep 10 pounds of muscle on me because the bigger you were before, the more money you made. I always tried to cut at least five pounds to get to 185.