Kamaru Usman Quotes

Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

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 know I can fight. I know I have kicks that can destroy people. Just because I haven't gotten in the ring in my career, that doesn't mean I'm not capable of crushing people.

You see me. What you see is what you get. You get real martial arts, you get real fighting, you get a real warrior mentality. Some people aren't mature enough to handle it.

I'd love a training camp. But if they walked in the door right now and said, 'Do you want to fight for the title in the next 10 minutes?' I'm out the door, warming up, ready to go.

I come to fight because I love to fight. It's my life.

If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing.

I did not feel that I was designed for hand-to-hand combat.

We require our fighters to be ready hurricanes, on-call combat machines. We want them held easily in check, and we expect light-switch control over their aggression…. We vaguely hope their anger does not spill over, or come home.

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.

There's a certain weird something. I'm always nervous when I spar. You learn it's going to hurt, but it's only going to hurt for a little bit. It brings out the animal in you to an extent. You learn what you can take.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I've trained that way, I've actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn't come. It's almost because my training has been too hard.

I've always wanted to fight. I love to fight.

I go in to fight just to fight. I don't care about submissions, the technique and all of that.

I train every day to destroy whoever they put in front of me.

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

Some people are born for a certain thing. And for me, unfortunately, I wish it was something a bit more artistic or whatever, but I was a born fighter. That's what kept me coming back. It makes me feel alive. And, I just know, there is nothing I do better in this world than fight.

When I prepare for a fight, I never expect it to be easy. I believe that that would create a chance for me to not give my best in the Octagon.

I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.

I love fighting. I don't know what it is in me, whether it's a sickness or a gene, but I just love standing in front of another fighter and going for it: they can hurt me, and I can hurt them.

Part of my gift as a fighter is being a human punching bag.

It's MMA. I'm a complete MMA fighter. I expect everything. I'm ready for all of it.