Alexis Carrel Quotes

Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

I have always fought for respect, I have always fought for survival, so fighting is nothing new to me.

My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.

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

For what we do training, as a fighter, you have to be able to flip that switch where you turn into that savage, that guy that's prepared to go to war.

I'm not scared of Jon Jones or Chris Weidman or whoever. I'm here to fight. That's it. It's simple.

I'm a fight finisher.

I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

You are such a chick." I widened my eyes in mock surprise. "No way. Are you sure?" Sighing again, he rubbed at the tattoos on his wrist. "Mackenzie was right. You aren't slayer material." Before he had time to register my intentions, I threw a punch. My sore, swollen knuckles slammed into his cheekbone, thrusting his head to the side. Pain shot up my arm, but I bit my tongue to stop a moan. "You were saying?" He popped his jaw, rubbed at the reddening skin-and slowly grinned. "Okay, so now I understand why Cole likes you. You're worse than Kat.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

That's the way to go. People say: 'Oh, he doesn't want to come back, he's scared,' and it's to play with your brain, to play with your mind. I'm not scared of nobody. I'm not scared of no human being. I'm scared to fight, every time I fight I'm scared, but I'll bite into my mouthpiece and I'll walk the walk.

I do not lose; I just do not get decisions sometimes. You lose when you quit. I have never quit. When it comes down to a decision, judges make a decision as to which fighter they want to win the fight. I have always been able to survive no matter whom they decide to give the fight to.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

The man who runs may fight again.

If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

I did not feel that I was designed for hand-to-hand combat.

I want to fight only dangerous guys. Whenever I've done that in my career, I've stepped up and risen to the challenge.

When you're fighting a guy like DC, he's just coming in and pushes you. You have to push him back.

When I train for a fight, you roll around, you catch someone in a move, you let them go. You just let go and keep going.