Chael Sonnen Quotes

I think I train too hard.

I have twenty years of training like a spartan behind me. It has caught up with me. My body is broken down. I've been worn out.

A lot of wear and tear on my body. I've been blessed not to have too many surgeries.

It's so emotional. You train so hard. I know the hours we put into it.

I did a forward roll for the kids the other day, thinking it'd be a breeze like it was when I was six, and I had to lie flat for about 20 minutes afterwards - 'Leave mummy alone; she's feeling a bit dizzy.'

When you train as hard as we do, bad things happen sometimes. It's just part of the sport.

People think I'm accident-prone when they see me on crutches, but I do eight shows a week.

Training for five-round fights is too much for the body.

The sport is rough. It does wear and tear on the body.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be playing regularly and saying they do not have a niggle. It is the nature of the beast, what you get when you play a lot of rugby: you have to get another niggle to forget about the one you already have.

I would go into practice pushing the body despite any injuries. It's a good thing but a bad thing. It's good because your body is quick to adapt, but it's a bad thing because you are forcing your body, and it can't recover as well.

There's going to be wear and tear on your body; that's just the nature of the sport, no matter if you're a rookie or if you're 10 years deep in the league.

A lot of people will comment, 'All the high flying will catch up to you.' I think any form of wrestling will catch up to you.

There were actually a couple of times I fell asleep at the gym on accident after a workout, but it was still late enough, so I went home and caught some sleep.

Soreness is not something you should always look for. It's good once in a while: it means you are pushing back on plateaus. But just because you aren't sore doesn't mean you aren't working hard.

When I was at IMPACT and X Division Champion, my neck wasn't able to handle the workload and after losing the belt to Brian Cage in a match I just realized my neck just can't handle this anymore.

Sometimes if you kick too much, it can work in a negative direction. If you get tired or sore, you might develop some bad habits.

My body had given up on me at one point. And as many injuries as I've had over the years, I truly believed that my body needed to rest and not be on the grind like it's been for the last 15 years.

You do what I did to my body, for as long as I did, and it's bound to take its toll.

You're just taking punishment every day, getting hit all the time. That's something we're going to cut back on. I'll train hard but the sparring will be cut in half.

You can't do everything I did for all those years and not sustain some injuries.

Even in high school, when I had injuries, I tried to play with them. When I shouldn't have worked out, I worked out.

For a lot of players, it's not that they don't want to play anymore or that they get tired of it or bored of it. It's that their bodies give out.

You know those hard days you go home where you've been worked to the bone and you just want to do nothing? In fight prep, every day is that day.

It's incredible the muscle damage you do in a sprint. You don't see it after the line, because we're smiling. But if you see the tent that we're in straight afterwards, you just collapse.