Derek Brunson Quotes

I'm never out there looking for the KO. If it's there, I'll take it.

Of course I would want the knockout, but with me, I just look for, you know, a spectacular performance. It's like, walk them down, or go for the knockout. You know, hopefully I get the knockout.

That's my goal for every fight, is to hit them as hard as I can.

You don't want to be going into any fight thinking you've got to get a knockout, or force a stoppage, because it takes you out of your gameplan.

I really believe in my hands and my power to knock people out, and I will try to keep looking for that, for knockouts.

I've seen so many fighters getting knocked out.

I always predict a knockout. That's what I go for, I hit to hurt.

Knocking someone out cold means you just caught them, that's all.

My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches.

Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.

Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.

I tell the guys all the time, 'if you have a good puncher, all the way in or all the way out.' Don't stay there and box.

I don't fight safe; I fight smart.

Yeah, I miss that feeling of knocking somebody clean out. There's nothing like it when you go into a fight and you just take 'em up out of there with just one punch. It's just the best feeling in the world.

People want to see knockouts.

I always go forward and try for the knockout or submission. I'm going to finish my opponent. I'm not going to try to win by decision.

Miocic has that knockout punch. I was completely dizzy a few moments when we fought.

When you have the chance to finish off your opponent, you must do it. You shouldn't give them chances to come back.

At the end of the day, when you're dealing with heavyweights who can punch, anything is possible. When you've got a big heavyweight who has knockout power, anything's possible.

I'm not going to go out there and have these slugfests, but I'll go out there and dominate my opponent. That's what I do in my fight.

I think Mark Hunt just has that knockout power, and that's pretty much it.

Hagler was a puncher-slugger. He'd box sometimes, but boxing wasn't his forte. His thing was relentless punishment and 'beat you.'

I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.

I will look for the knockout because that's the way I fight.

Vitali Klitschko clobbered me with jabs left and right. I believe he threw the most punches he had thrown in his career against me, and that's because I just kept coming with the pressure.