Urijah Faber Quotes

I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.

I'm a white middle-class public schoolboy so I'm not particularly tough. But it turns out I don't mind going in the cage. I can dig in. And it's interesting watching people spar and train. There's no anger. It's all technique and delivered with venom.

There's more to the sport than just fighting, and you either understand that, or you don't. And if you don't, then I promise you the guys that are worth money don't want to fight you, because you don't get it.

From the very beginning, every time I trained for a fight, I didn't train to beat the guy I was fighting. I trained to beat Anderson Silva.

It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.

I have fought fighters in the past who I don't like as people, but you have to block out any type of dislike or hate. Whatever he's done, whatever he's said, you can't be thinking about that. You just have to see him as a man that you have to outpoint, outgame, and beat on the night.

It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you'll ever do is to box - to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.

The best thing I've ever heard another player say is, 'I hate playing against you.'

You need to prepare for every fight.

The greatest thing about fighting a guy like Dave Rickels: He always comes to fight.

I don't think I'm a bad guy from Dagestan. I think I'm a good guy from Dagestan. But for my opponents, for sure, I'm a bad guy because when I go to the cage every time, I smash my opponents.

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

I hate hearing in a UFC corner, 'You won the first four rounds; just stay away from him this round.'

I'm in the UFC; this is a sport about fighting. If someone wants to fight me, or someone wants to fight someone else... you're here to fight each other, so I get it.

I always played my best when I respected my opponent and was a little scared of them because they could beat me. Every game I played in college, that was the case.

Getting in the cage, it's not like I need a whole mental preparation for it. It's just a fight.

I love this sport. I love the fights and I love most of the guys in it.

Fighting is a lonely thing. You train with your team. You bleed with them. You trust your coaches, but ultimately, you are in the cage alone.

I respect Demetrious Johnson to the fullest. I wouldn't travel the world and find different training partners and coaches to help me defeat this man if I didn't want to win.

Fighting Raphael Assunaco isn't that exciting to me. I have nothing against him; he's a good guy and a good fighter.

I've trained boxing in the past to learn the distance, trained wrestling to understand how he would take me down, but I won't get there to fight my opponent's game.

Even just my basics are so effective against a guy like Max Holloway.

I'm a professional; I'd never fight against Mirko or anyone else not being prepared.

I've got big respect for Corey Anderson. He's a great fighter, he poses a big threat.

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