Quotes About Combat

He had learned a valuable lesson about physical confrontations: You can predict nothing. Sure, whoever lands the first blow usually wins. The bigger man was usually victorious too. But once it got going, once the red tornado took hold of the combatants, anything could happen. The

Like I said, we all choose our battles.

Every time I touched Ronda, connected a punch, I wanted more and more. That's why the fight was so fast. Every time I connected, I felt that she couldn't take it, so I threw more and only stopped when it was over. But it was good.

We knew Stiverne was tough. You've got to give it to him. He's got a tough chin.

Heath Herring is tough as nails, and he fights hard.

I'm a tough guy. I'm ready to battle with anybody.

Dennis Siver, he's a tough guy.

Pat Curran is a very tough guy to fight. He has a very good chin. I gave him five knockdowns and he survived.

I left the UFC after the fight with Ortiz. Tito was the last super tough guy as I had already handled all of the other guys quite handily.

Anderson Silva is a tough guy, man. He's dangerous. He's got heavy hands, and he's not afraid to throw them. He's a dangerous opponent for anyone.

Actually, when I fought in PRIDE, we had the best fighters in the world. Back then, the UFC had a very serious and big crisis; they were going through some tough times trying to get top fighters. All the best fighters were in PRIDE.

That's what really gets me going, thinking about my past. I think about all the tough times and bad times I've had in my life and I bring all that into the Octagon. That's only because it's hard going in there trying to fight someone who didn't do anything to you.

The general public perception is that fighting robots were popular, and then went away for a long time, but in reality, there have been live robot combat events happening continuously since 1994. And all the while, the robots have been getting better and meaner and tougher.

Being in the UFC doesn't mean you're the best. UFC is tough too, but Bellator is tougher.

The toughest fight I've ever had was T. J. Grant.

I've been in this position many times and I know it's these so-called easy fights that can be harder than the toughest ones.

I thought this was the UFC and we're supposed to be the best and toughest fighters in the world.

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

Anderson Silva, Georges Saint-Pierre, and Rodrigo Nogueira are some of the top fighters in the UFC among many other great fighters. The UFC has many of the toughest fighters around.

Chudinov is one of the toughest guys I fought. It was only the slump of his shoulders that made me think he's hurt because there's no grimace, or rolling eyes. He was never going down.

We propose that UFC and Akhmat face off in a tournament... And we'll see who has the strongest fighters. I think it would be quite a spectacle.

I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

If they could put us all in a tournament, that'd be the best way, but they're not going to do that here at the UFC.

There are things - I want to compete in a big tournament, like an eight-man tournament, like the old fighters. You're going to compete; you're going to fight this one and this one.