Tim Kennedy Quotes

I got thrown into the lion's den when I got to Alpha Male. My first sparring session was with Joe Benavidez, Chad Mendes and those guys, just bleeding from my face, its not like they took it easy on me. It was one of those things where we sparred 3-4 days a week, and we got thrown in there and that's what made me as tough as I am.

Part of my gift as a fighter is being a human punching bag.

I've been in a few fights where I keep drilling guys - Carl Froch, those sort of people - and they just keep coming.

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

Give me the action. I come from a place of fighters. My father was a fighter, a boxer, and Penny loves to box. So give it to me until my body won't do it anymore. Bring it on.

Everyone at home sitting on their couches, they think it's so easy to fight. Stepping inside that cage is probably the hardest thing in the world to do. I truly believe that.

There is a ferocity to MMA and to the training, but there's such a humanity to it too. It takes so much sacrifice and humility to get into it and to rise through those levels. If you look at the fights as a means to test who you are, every one of these fights is an opportunity to see how far you're willing to go up against yourself - and to find and define your limits.

I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps.

Quit now? They'll have to cut the uniform off me. I'm going out for another 300. They couldn't be any harder to get than the first 300.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

MMA in my opinion is the hardest sport in the world, no doubt.

What I love the most about being a pro fighter is meeting the people. You get to meet all the fans and new friends that you get to meet up with all the time.

I like to make people quit. Whether it's because I'm striking them or submitting them, I just want to make them quit. In the war of wills, that's the win.

The thing that's so tough about 'Broken Skull Challenge' is you're going head-to-head with another human being who may or may not be stronger than you and may or may not want it more than you.

It's MMA. I'm a complete MMA fighter. I expect everything. I'm ready for all of it.

I'm used to throwing my body around. I'm used to taking a punch.

Every game is mentally and physically tough but we get through it and it makes you stronger.

I'm a mixed martial arts fighter. But at the end of the day, all experience will help. And experience I got from that fight, it will help me to win this fight.

I'm just a normal fellow who gets punched in the face for a living and gets punched really hard at times as well. But you know what? I'm all right at punching them back.

It takes a lot of courage in that cage no matter who you are.

I'm a fight finisher.

If you're in the UFC, you're one of the baddest dudes around.

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.

If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.

Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round.