Quotes About Struggle

For all fighters, you haven't faced anyone until you've faced somebody.

We are still fighters.

Too many fighters stay in the game for too long. They stay because it's awfully hard to walk away from the roar of the crowd. Really hard. You live for that and so you stay too long. And you might have a wife and kids to feed. So you keep fighting because you don't know how to do anything else.

The majority of fighters and athletes live double lives.

Very few fighters get a chance to come back.

All fighters put their lives on the line.

I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre.

I think a lot of fighters are cutting way too much weight.

With the UFC it's like, you make okay money, and only if you're the champion do you make good money. So they're keeping the fighters deliberately poor so they'll keep fighting.

Some good fighters, they never won the belt, so it doesn't always show the whole picture. But it's an accomplishment.

You hear a lot from the other fighters that have fought in Denver, you see some of the fighters are just gassing out.

After the Ronda fight, I wasn't sure what the UFC held for me. I think coming out of that fight, I didn't know if losing that fight meant that I could get cut because I knew the rumors at the time was how easily fighters could get cut from the UFC.

It's hard when you corner, even when I corner other fighters because it's demanding.

My dad died, and he wasn't in my life because he had schizophrenia, so it's been something that my entire family has been fighting against since I can remember.

In life, you always have to keep fighting. It's not easy.

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like.

I've been fighting since I was 15. I know what war is.

I like fighting because it's honest.

We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.

You're always fighting the demons.

I am a fighter. I learned it at Genk in my first year when we were fighting against going down. Also, at Bremen last year, it was very difficult. We had to fight more often than not. I will fight again to earn my place.

It was like fighting with the MPAA... to me it was like this is an R easy... but it was NC 17 over and over and even with this cut they were like, you are right on the edge buddy, one more thing and it's NC-17.

At one point in my life, I felt as if fighting was everything. It was everything. I put life second.