Quotes About Fighting

You can't tell me to stop being me. As long as there's something out there for me, or somebody offers me something that's reasonable, people that I want to fight, not just anybody, it's gotta make sense... but as long as those fights come around, I will continue to keep being me.

I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.

I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.

I don't recommend anybody becoming a fighter.

A fighter can always recover, and you never know what they're going to come back with.

When you think of fighting, you think of the work that you put in at the gym. Well, recovery is part of that work process.

When you recruit good candidates and you have a good message and you have energy and organization and partnership, you always have a fighting chance.

If I do consider fighting, it won't be until after the Olympic games in 2020, and then from there I'll reevaluate, see if it's something that would be a realistic option for me.

When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it's kinda cute... A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don't. It's not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do.

Cain's an animal, man. Cain's a competitor. I want to spar with Cain because I know if I'm able to hang with him here in the gym, once I get out there in the cage and fight, I mean, I've already gone toe-to-toe with Cain Velasquez, you know?

It's a hard job, you know? I prefer to fight. Fighting is easy, being a father is much harder.

You have to remember, I had come from a pretty hard life. There was all this abuse and everything else, so the idea of fighting for sport was pretty heavy. Fighting to me was about fighting for your life, you know.

I've done it the hard way and taken every opportunity I've been given and said yes to every fighter that's been put in front of me.

I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage.

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

Dre is one of those guys that doesn't mind fighting at the drop of a hat.

I hate hearing in a UFC corner, 'You won the first four rounds; just stay away from him this round.'

I'm not fighting for bonuses or money or anything else. I fight because I love to fight and I love being in the heat of the battle and the heat of the moment. You might laugh at me when I say this, but I love feeling like I gave the fans their money's worth.

Fighting in a heavier weight class is a big achievement on its own.

I have the heaviest hands in my division.

I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.

I'm heavy into 'Max Payne 3'. That's a good one. I like any of the fighting games and all of the 'Tekken' and 'Street Fighter' series.

And it's a big honor to be fighting for the title and to put a Mexican-American on top of the heavyweight division. I can give a lot of people some kind of inspiration by winning this title.

I think everyone has knockout power. I mean, it's the heavyweight division.