Colby Covington Quotes

I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.

I fight guys that no one has ever heard of; I fought guys who are legends, like Frankie Edgar.

I train with top guys like Chuck Liddell and Lyoto Machida, I have trained with Junior dos Santos and Cain Velasquez, and nobody have ever dominated me.

I train with the best team and the best gym in the world at American Top Team, and we know how to fight.

Without a doubt Jon Jones is one of the greatest fighters in history, and, of course, we do see errors that we'll try to exploit.

Man, Ben Henderson, Donald Cerrone... these guys are a different level, man.

I respect all the fighters. I respect Georges St-Pierre because Georges has a great story in the UFC. I respect all the fighters in here because this is the biggest sport in the world.

I train at American Top Team, the biggest team in the world, and I have every type of training.

I trained with Jorge Masvidal when I've been training MMA for 2-1/2 months in Coconut Creek, Fla., in, like, December 2008. I was beating him up then!

I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.

There are certain things that I always dreamed of, like fighting in the UFC. There's just certain things that I feel like haven't been accomplished there. There's such great women coming up in the sport; seems like a wonderful time to be in women's MMA.

Mr. Efrain Escudero is a great fighter and TUF Champ. He has fought in big fights, and has a great record.

The difference between me and other black belts is that I truly believe that jujitsu can be used in all aspects of MMA, because it was created to do that. If you train hard, it will work.

Most other schools train no-gi part time, or maybe even half the time. We train no-gi all the time.

I have the highest takedown defense in the entire welterweight division, maybe the second-highest on the UFC roster.

Who inside MMA that's a champion goes to fight Muay Thai? Nobody. But I love competing.

I'm very open to fight Valentina Shevchenko. I always want to fight the best fighters and I think that she is one of the top female fighters in the world.

You can say what you want about the Stephen Thompson fight, but you cannot disregard that me and Stephen went five rounds in a technical fight. Apparently, he's one of the best strikers in the UFC, Stephen Thompson.

Daniel Crawford, who was BAMMA featherweight champion, used to train with me.

Honestly, I would love to fight Henry Cejudo. You've got that gold medalist in the Olympics, I would love to test myself against that.

I want to fight a UFC fighter.

I'm always training to fight the best fighters in the world, and if the UFC wants me to fight Georges St-Pierre, then I will fight him.

I want to be the first British person to lift a UFC World Title.

The biggest shock was the first fight. I didn't know what to expect. I fought Fujita. At that time, he was one of the most dangerous PRIDE fighters. He was a complete beast and with 130 kilograms of pure muscle.

Mixed martial arts is great, and it's here to stay.