Amanda Nunes Quotes

My job is to hit somebody until the referee pulls me off.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.

I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.

I liked to watch the expression in the fighter's face change when you connected with him. You know when you connect in the right spot. It's like a tunnel vision.

I like to actually fight. It's just in my blood.

The most excited you'll ever see me is after knocking a guy out.

I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.

In the ring, if someone hits you too hard, you can only take so many of those, and you have to send back a receipt, meaning 'Hey, settle down.' If a guy has a bad night at the office and catches you in the chin, you pop him so he knows what's going on.

I'm not itching for a fight. But I'm just saying when I see the other guy putting on his boxing gloves and, you know, you've got dancing around in the ring, I kind of suspect that maybe a fight's coming.

I really believe I can knock anyone out in this world.

It's often my opponent's plan to take me into the later rounds, but the amount of damage that has accumulated on them means they don't hear the final bell.

Boxing is kind of like football in that you test each other's desire to be there.

I will look for the knockout because that's the way I fight.

I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.

I have the greatest job in the world. I get paid loads of cash for beating the crap out of people. And I'm very good at it.

When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.