Bobby Lashley Quotes

Boxing is not a bodybuilding sport, plain and simple. Your body isn't going to win a fight.

I'm the most well-rounded fighter on the planet.

I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do.

As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.

I trained as hard as I could, I ran as much as I could, I sparred hard, I did everything right. I did everything I could possibly do at the age when I could fight. You have to be realistic; you can't say, 'Oh, I am smarter now, older and I can punch harder.' You think you can, but you can't.

As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.

When I train for a fight, you roll around, you catch someone in a move, you let them go. You just let go and keep going.

For me the more important thing is fighting. You know, training, fighting. The sports side. I didn't choose my media life.

I stretch for a full hour before a fight because I know I'm going to take a lot of punishment in the ring. That's my secret.

Everybody wants to be a good fighter.

I am a Division I All-American wrestler, but I wrestled college wrestling matches, seven minutes long. If I was to go in there and wrestle for seven minutes of a fight, a 25-minute fight, you're not getting nothing out of me for the rest of the time.

Fighters can fight into their 50s. Why not?

I'm a completely evolved fighter.

I have done martial arts my whole life, so it comes easily, but I have never done proper sword fighting.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.

Getting ready to wrestle is like getting ready for a car crash. Getting ready to work with Brock Lesnar is like knowing you're going to get hit by a bus and the bus is going to back over you. If I'm going to work 'WrestleMania,' 16 weeks out I have to start training like I'm Mayweather getting ready for a fight.

I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.

I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36.

I thought boxing was stupid.

I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.

I never really liked weightlifting because there is no problem solving, whereas when I am fighting, I am trying to solve a problem, so I don't think about being tired. I box, wrestle, do jujitsu, run up sand dunes; every single day is something different so that I am mentally engaged. That's what makes me want to train longer.

My fighting style, if you will, is a combination of mimicking, cowboy films and boxing that I have done throughout my life.

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

I have MMA strengths, but I need to build on my weaknesses.