Tony Ferguson Quotes

It's the one you don't expect that knocks you out.

Going to fight Gilbert Burns while not training jiu-jitsu, I mean, that's just stupid.

You've really got to stay ready 24/7. You really can't get ready because there's no telling. They'll call you short notice to fight anyone so you really have to stay ready.

Getting hit is part of the job. You don't want the first time you're getting punched to be in the fight because there's a lot of shock and awe and you won't react well. I like to get hit in sparring. I don't want to get concussed, or I don't want to be getting knocked out, but I want some shock treatment to prepare me for the fight.

The day I step in the cage with Cyborg, I will be 100% prepared.

I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.

We always train with heavier sparring partners to make it harder so the fight will be easier.

In the lead-up to fights, I'm very relaxed, very calm.

I think, like all big things, you don't know they're going to be a big thing when you start. You just kind of, like, play because it's fun, and it's interesting, and then it turns out to be way more important than you expected.

Anytime you think about ring rust and travel and camps back-to-back, it helps not having any bad injuries and being able to train consistently.

Let's face it. Nobody predicted Trump. He's a fairytale nightmare that none of us could possibly have imagined. Shame on those 63 million who - especially those Obama voters who crossed over and voted, shame on them for putting this idiot in the White House.

It doesn't matter that I'm taking a fight on a month's notice. I've taken many fights on two seconds' notice.

Everything can happen in tennis.

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

Going into a fight with Cyborg, you need to be as on point as possible.

Whatever UFC wants to do or any opponent they want to give me, I'll be ready for that.

Somebody somewhere decided to put me on TV without really thinking twice about it.

For me, I've been known as a very well-rounded fighter, and I think that's really important, that you're well rounded and comfortable in every situation that a fight can go. A lot of people focus on just one discipline, and when they get out of that, they're in a difficult position.

I'd love a training camp. But if they walked in the door right now and said, 'Do you want to fight for the title in the next 10 minutes?' I'm out the door, warming up, ready to go.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

People live in a place called Tornado Alley - and they're surprised when they get hit by a tornado. I'm sorry when they get hit by tornadoes, but when you live in Tornado Alley you can't really claim surprise.

My career was prematurely launched. I didn't have a plan.

A lot of fighters underestimate me. And what do you know? They end up being on the canvas.

There's a negative effect when you run around without exhausting everything that happens with the play call.

I went in to Reading with the full backing of the chairman, who was great to me, and I got 20 games. Even though it was a three-year project, and I was the guy who knew the club more than anyone, I got the sack after 20 games. Funnily enough, it had just started to pick up, but they lost their patience.