Nick Diaz Quotes

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.

Every time I touched Ronda, connected a punch, I wanted more and more. That's why the fight was so fast. Every time I connected, I felt that she couldn't take it, so I threw more and only stopped when it was over. But it was good.

My job is to hit somebody until the referee pulls me off.

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.

People don't like to see a sloppy fight, to see heavyweights wallow around. They like to see exciting fighters.

You could be the best in the world, but it doesn't matter. It's four-ounce gloves. I've been dropped in practice with a knee to the body. I take a good knee to the body and break my ribs in the fight, I lost. I mean, it's a fight.

I thought if you tapped out, you lost the round. Come to find out, you actually lose the fight.

My job is to work my best boxing in the ring.

I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.

In the ring, if someone hits you too hard, you can only take so many of those, and you have to send back a receipt, meaning 'Hey, settle down.' If a guy has a bad night at the office and catches you in the chin, you pop him so he knows what's going on.

I'm not itching for a fight. But I'm just saying when I see the other guy putting on his boxing gloves and, you know, you've got dancing around in the ring, I kind of suspect that maybe a fight's coming.

I love to fight, and I'm looking forward to being back in the ring, getting the victory, and moving on to challenge for the World Heavyweight title.

Boxing, for me, is all about drama and victory, and there is plenty more to come.

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.

Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.

Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.

This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.

I'd say I just fell in love with trying to knock people out really quick instead of letting the fight develop.