Quotes About Combat

I don't ever know the people I fight at all. I just know their name and I show up on the night, they show up, and we fight in a cage and we paid for it. That's what we like to do.

The thing is, against guys like GSP or Anderson Silva, many guys are beaten before they step into the cage.

I don't think anybody in the world matches up with my skills. That's just the way you've got to be when you step in the cage.

When you're used to fighting in a cage, nothing scares you.

Fighting in the cage brings much more adrenaline than fighting in the ring. When you step inside the Octagon and they close the door, that's really a high adrenaline feeling because they enclose you and one guy in the cage.

In a game where it all lies on what you do in that cage, it's hard to walk out a loser.

Back then in the early '90s, people weren't calling it MMA - we called it Knockdown Sport Budo.

There were definitely some days at training camp that I got in fistfights.

I cant remember the last time I went in the ring feeling whole. The pain is something you learn to live with. Some guys don't and they don't last.

At my academy, I have a full 20x20 canvas but I don't have any ropes around it and do that for a reason so I don't get on my back on the ropes.

I know what it is to feel like you've gotten into a 60-mile-an-hour car accident after a fight. It's pretty rough. It's why we are where we are. We get paid to fight the best in the world and that's something you know going in is part of it.

No matter how much cardio you do - running or biking or whatever - it's never the same as being in the ring.

I hate cardio; I hate to go for a run. I hate physical things. But Jiu Jitsu is fun because its self-defence and you get some good cardio.

I'm very strong and I have enough cardio for three or five rounds if I have to.

Who's held down Gaethje and beat him up? Nobody. He's so powerful, cardio never seems to be a problem.

Anybody who sees me in person will see the worst cauliflower ears I think you have ever seen.

People who don't understand fighting think you need to hate somebody to beat them. But I keep hate and anger out of boxing, because it causes mistakes.

I am one of the hardest-hitting light-middleweights they've had for centuries.

Werdum's the champ for a reason. He's good at jiu jitsu; like he says, he's gotten better on his feet.

Everybody wants to do a fight with me, champions at 170, champions at 185.

This isn't the Best Friend Fighting Championship. This is MMA.

With boxing, sometimes you'll watch the first three rounds, then you'll change the channel and turn it back in the 10th round. With MMA, you have to watch all 15 minutes. You'll want to watch every second.

I'm trained to fight, not chase people around.

I don't like cheaters, I fight clean.