Cain Velasquez Quotes

Sparring is not as tough as a fight.

I fight with good strikers every day.

When I come to spar, I definitely come to spar; I definitely come to fight.

I've sparred with lots of people and played around with everybody.

After I get the belt, I will be well prepared to face anyone they put in front of me.

MMA guys, we sparred a lot of them training for KSI because of the wild punches.

I've always been told that if you spar with another man, you try and emulate what a real fight is going to be like. So you go hard. It's how I've always been.

I've mixed sparring partners up. I've done tons upon tons of rounds with big, heavy lumps who are trying to take my head off.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

It's like a prize fighter. He knows he has a fight coming up, so he gets in the gym and trains. So when I have a show coming up, I practice yodeling.

When you play, of course you want to win, but the most important thing about pre-season is improving your fitness.

When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that - it was a heavenly sound to me.

I've got more mat hours than most of the guys who are grapplers got on the mat.

I really love fighting.

I train to fight, to win.

I was just want to get some good fights and as many as possible.

I think I adapted well for MMA.

Fighting is what I love to do.

I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.

I love what I do. I love the competition of fighting. And I love to wrestle.

There are not many heavyweight fighters to come by, so having so many sparring partners is a big luxury a lot of other fighters don't have.

When I see wrestlers fight, they train a lot of boxing because they don't want to end up on bottom.

Some people spar five days a week.

It's the fight game. I'm ready for everything.