Quotes About Combat

He's a very, very clever fighter, Manny, but you'd have to say the cleverest fighter in boxing is Mayweather. He adapts his style against whatever opponent he faces.

The moonsault - I climb to the top rope and back flip onto my opponent. It's very effective but can be risky if my opponent moves out of the way.

Every fight, I train for the opponent very hard and smart.

If an opportunity comes to knock out my opponent, I'm going to take it.

As a fighter my goal is not to get hit and frustrate my opponent. Once I get you frustrated then I got you.

My opponent DeLuca is a strong, gutsy fighter who is always ready for war.

Mayweather has boxing genius. But it takes one to know one, and he knew right away Pacquiao also has rare boxing IQ - an equalizing gift for setting up and taking down an opponent.

The only thing that matters to me is to hit my opponent and do whatever it takes to knock him out.

Different martial arts have ways of showing you how to control an opponent and put him down, but jiu-jitsu is the king of how to finish somebody. And that's what I love about it.

I'm going to leave it all out in the cage and know that I'm trying to finish my opponent, even knowing that most of my time it ain't going to be a finish.

This is show business. I know that winning is super important and a gameplan is super important, but at some point you have to, this is the hurt business and you gotta to try to put your opponent out.

At 135 I always floated too close to my actual weight. I was always trying to keep my weight up to 135. And every time I faced off with an opponent, I could never believe how large they were after they blew up after weigh-ins. I would always just be the same size.

I mean, I watched Ken train in the gym. Ken was one of the greatest athletes I've ever seen. But when he got into a fight, it would be half of him. He was wrestling with a lot more in there than just beating his opponent.

Physically, no disrespect to Ronda, but I don't think she has an advantage over anybody else. She's not physically stronger than any other opponent I've gone against.

No matter what I think about Matt Hughes, and it's not much, he's a dangerous opponent.

Sometimes I let my opponent hit me. Not because I like it. To get him tired.

When you're in there with a top-level opponent, it's supposed to be a close, action-packed fight.

Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.

I never choose my opponents.

A champion doesn't choose opponents or where the fight is going to be.

I broke people's bones, tore muscles, ribs, faces, inflicted some serious and heavy damages to my opponents, etc... I got hurt myself, too, from serious attacks.

I cannot let my opponents get into my head.

It's always my plan to knock out my opponents.

My game was all about strength and mauling opponents.