Quotes About Combat

Getting choked out feels a lot better than getting knocked out.

My second bout with Cro Cop was the hardest. I had a serious injury in my eye during the fight and he knocked me out in the second round. I think it was the closest I've been to death.

Ben Askren had never been knocked out when I got a hold of him.

Robert Whittaker hasn't been that impressive. He got knocked out by choir boy Stephen Thompson.

Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.

Fabio Maldonado jumped up to heavyweight for our fight, and while he wasn't ranked, he is a super-tough dude and had never been knocked out before.

I've knocked guys out in the 11th round before, late.

When I get knocked down, I'm going to get up and knock you down - and I'm going to hurt you.

When I lose, I'll get knocked out. It won't be because I got outworked or outskilled or anything like that.

When I first fought in K-1, I knocked out a guy in two minutes.

The lesson I learned from the Cung Le fight is this: What we do is very dangerous and really shouldn't be played with. I should have just knocked him out, not let him dance around and look good.

The UFC is a very serious business, it's not the WWE. Guys break their arms and get knocked out in there.

I've seen so many fighters getting knocked out.

I beat Luke Rockhold, he's a great fighter. I knocked him out.

I didn't stick with my game plan, I didn't take Rogers serious and the result, he knocked me out in less than 20 seconds.

Sometimes I knocked people out then said: 'Was it the left or the right?' I didn't know! I just had the power.

It seems I was born with the gift of knocking people out.

The most excited you'll ever see me is after knocking a guy out.

Knocking someone out cold means you just caught them, that's all.

I got into a lot of fights. Then I started knocking people out, and they stopped.

In MMA, I believe that when a fighter knocks someone down, you have to finish him. It's not boxing, where you have a ten count; you have to finish him.

A personality like Conor's appeals to the Russian people a lot. He's always ready to go, he knocks people out and he's tough.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.