Colby Covington Quotes

You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.

You can shut the fuck up, or you can fire me

Whatever you think I am, I agree. Can we move on to other questions.

There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.

…I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.

What have I got for Ireland? Something which she has wanted these past 700 years. Will anyone be satisfied with the bargain? Will anyone? I tell you this -— early this morning I signed my death warrant.

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.

I'm stuck with being No. 32 for the Cleveland Browns. I can't do anything about that, and I don't' want to do anything about it.

Before Mendes got suspended, I've been calling out Chad Mendes.

The UFC wants me to fight. The people want me to fight. I don't want me to fight.

I like to take on athletes who have issues with me.

You have to just figure out how to let it roll off of you, because no matter who you are or what you do, somebody's always going to disagree with something that you're doing or saying or something that you think or believe.

I don't think you're ever going to be truly successful if everyone likes you.

I'm a firm believer in... just because these guys are professional athletes or whatever, everybody's going to have an opinion on something, and not everybody's going to get along. I've had my words with fans on Twitter too.

As history has shown, I don't think the UFC is in the business of doing favors for other people.

It's natural to want to rebel against what your parents do.

I've fought with everyone. And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.

It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.

Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

UFC 151 will be remembered as the event Jon Jones and Greg Jackson murdered.

I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed; and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.