Donald Cerrone Quotes

Working in water is so difficult. But I liked having something very physical to do - you realize you're strong. It's a really good feeling.

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

I love to win. But probably equal to that - I love doing what I do.

Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work.

People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.

I've got more skills in my pinky finger than half the damn guys in the UFC.

Being a brakeman is very physical, and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters.

I enjoy fighting. It's one of my favorite things to do in the world, so I'm just enjoying every minute of it.

This is a man's sport. I fight.

If people will pay to see it, I'll fight anyone in any sport.

There's just a spirit about you that it's such a beautiful art form in which you can implement strategy in order to subdue another individual. And I really feel like that's in wrestling and UFC; we're kind of - we collaborate in that way.

I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.

There's not a woman in this world that can beat me if we put on a pair of gloves and we fight. I've accomplished so much.

I've always loved to fight. I love what I do, and that is why I've been doing it for so long. I really enjoy fighting and competing at a high level. I love getting in there and getting after it.

I think I bring a different flavor to the game, both inside and outside the Octagon.

Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.

I like to step into the Octagon and just show what I'm made of.

It's like I say all the time, it's the heavyweight division. It doesn't matter if the guys a black belt or if he's a world-class boxer. We still have a 50-50 chance.

People want to see me fight all sorts of people out there.

Everyone has 4 ounce gloves on, and they're big boys, and they can throw hard.

If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

He was fortunate to fight me on a bad night because if he fights me when I'm firing on all cylinders, he's getting battered as well.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.