Chuck Liddell Quotes

I don't have any concerns fighting a teammate. It's a sport. To me, it doesn't really mean anything.

I'm one of those guys: I'm out there trying to punch you out and to hurt you, but as soon as I'm done, hopefully there's nothing wrong with you; I'm hoping that you're okay.

I'm against the fighting. But sometimes when you're trying to help your team, trying to win the games, there are moments when you need to get a little aggressive.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

To show respect for the opponent is to go and kill with every single action. That is the way you show it. You need to be aggressive. That is how I understand football.

I want to show in a violent sport like our sport, you don't need to hurt anybody in order to win.

I just never try to beat somebody on the scorecards. It's never happened. It's not in me, I think.

There is no such thing as friends on the field.

Sometimes you get into fights if a teammate is getting taken advantage of, sometimes just from competing and you feel someone takes a cheap shot. It's just the intensity. It's an intense game, sometimes you just get too fired up and fights happen.

It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's football's glory, and its curse. The game of football doesn't transfer well to the real world. You can't treat your friends, neighbors, or loved ones the way you treat your opponent on the football field.

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

No matter who you are, or what you're doing, there's always going to be someone that wants to be better than you. So I try to take the high road and be the bigger person. That way, you always win in the end!

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.

When it's your will versus another person's will, the worst thing you can do is smile in their face when you're competing. That's what I tell our guys. Go have fun.

You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.