Quotes About Combat

I used to get so stressed out before the fight, weeks out, because of how much weight I had to cut to get there.

The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.

You can hit the bags, the pads, and you can run and do your fitness and your weights as much as you want, but if you don't spar you just don't have that true experience, that true knowledge of how to beat a man in one-on-one combat.

I've always been a clean fighter, always lifting weights.

They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with.

I'm very good at submissions from the ground. I have good takedowns and good striking, so I'm pretty well-rounded.

Whether it's fight off my front foot, fight off my back foot, pick shots off, roll shots off, potshot, put combinations together, I feel like I'm a pretty well-rounded fighter. Whatever the situation calls for, I feel like I have the tools on my belt to bring it out.

Exactly, everyone knows me as a striker, but I want to show I'm a more well-rounded fighter so I can get some of the big fights with the top fighters.

Magny is a tough test. Magny is well-rounded, has great endurance. He's got great boxing and great reach, but he doesn't have great angles. I have better movement than him and I feel that's definitely an advantage.

Andrey Koreshkov is not well-rounded. He's been taken down and mounted and has his back taken by Lyman Good, which tells me he's a terrible grappler. He isn't well rounded. He's a good striker, but that's it.

Mike Brown is a big guy; he's very durable. He's extremely strong and very well-rounded.

When I'm in a ring, I'm there to hurt you. That's the objective in a fight. Your wellbeing is not my concern.

The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.

You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.

You could be the best in the world, but it doesn't matter. It's four-ounce gloves. I've been dropped in practice with a knee to the body. I take a good knee to the body and break my ribs in the fight, I lost. I mean, it's a fight.

Listen, anybody can put their head down and throw a haymaker and pray and hope it lands.

Before I step in the Octagon, I pray one last time and take a huge deep breath, and then I'm home.

Being patient has made me a more precise fighter.

Pressure is the way a predator fights.

I always predict a knockout. That's what I go for, I hit to hurt.

While we all would have preferred a different outcome when combat operations in Afghanistan ended, it's important to remember the service and sacrifices of the American people had value.

I always say the Premier League is like two boxers fighting. The one who is least strong gets tired; he does down.

Getting in the cage, it's not like I need a whole mental preparation for it. It's just a fight.

When I prepare for a fight, I never expect it to be easy. I believe that that would create a chance for me to not give my best in the Octagon.