Stipe Miocic Quotes

As a boxer, you have to put risk in to get to another level.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

Pain is part of the sport.

I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love.

Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.

Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.

The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.

During your career, you put yourself in peak physical condition, but then you bear the brunt of it for the rest of your life.

I never came out of a game unless I was truly hurt.

I lived and breathed football. Now I have difficulty walking because of that: because I gave much more than I actually had to give.

It's football - I would play with seven fingers if I had too, man.

It's a hard game, boxing. You're up every morning running every day, you train in the afternoon, you're dieting, you're up and down in weight and it can wear you down.

The game takes a toll on your body.

Training is what sacrifices. I see that in my body.

It is a grind lifestyle and it never ends until you get hurt and then you sit home rehabbing for three months or whatever it is until you get back straight on that train grinding again, which is how you make your money in the pro wrestling world.

You play 162 days, and you play every day, or you try to play every day, and it's going to take a toll on your body. But that's what we're out here for. We're out here to play.

I sacrificed my body for the Heat, and I'd do it again.

This is football, man. We all sign up to get hit.

Sometimes you just have to play in pain.

I think I'm one of the hardest-training fighters in the world.

I will get out there and train harder than anyone, five times a day sometimes. You have to be a special person to do that - like, special forces, military maybe.

The toughest time was lying in a Tenerife hospital with no-one speaking English, next to a window with the sun beating down and my leg tied up, thinking I would never box again or even walk again. It took every bit of shine off winning the world title.

It's one thing to be 100 percent and go out and play football feeling great. It's another thing when you're not feeling good. You're sick, or you got a nagging injury, and you gotta go out in the cold and go across the middle where a guy's coming full speed at you trying to kill you.

With injuries, every match varies. The black eyes are accidents. The broken noses are accidents. But the bumps from when we land on the mat, they're hard. I think it looks easier, or the fans don't really understand what's happening, but it does take a toll.

Injuries are part of life. We can't decide on that.