Rashad Evans Quotes

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

When they hated me, it was hell. I used to fight the crowd before I even started my matches. It was crazy.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.

I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my balance.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

In the Middle East, a nation whose youngsters are not willing to kill and get killed for it is a nation on borrowed time. It will not last long.

You're always fighting the demons.

I fight demons.

For me, basketball was always about survival because I was just trying to get out the hood, right? When I got to Chicago, I'm like, 'I'm just trying to survive, and anybody I got to step on or break, so be it.'

My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.

Fighting is what I do.

Fighting has been a part of my life for my entire existence.

I kind of focus on my own stuff, really, and then when people come into my territory, I've got to fight them away, and that's what we do every time fight night happens.

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

I ended up moving downtown with these three dudes that I didn't really know. I came into the house, and I didn't realize how things worked. From, like, 15-18, I was just fighting them. I fought, like, every day, and these were, like, older dudes. It was every man for himself.

I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me.

Fighting has opened the path to redemption for me.

He hasn't accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me bread, is fighting hard to kill me.