Competition Schedule Quotes

That's all I ask the UFC to do: keep me active.

I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.

I enjoy working, and I enjoy working every day - and it is for that reason that I don't so much like the idea of working with an international squad. To have every day on the pitch is important to me.

I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.

You're playing competitive, and it's always better to play four competitive rounds than it is two because you sit there for a weekend and then you start all over again.

If a football player has a bad game, he's allowed to do that because he plays once or twice a week. With fighting, it's once every few months.

I don't see myself being in the sport a very long period of time, so I want to fight as much as possible.

Nobody wants to train every day so the more games the better.

In my private life, I don't really do too much because the matches are so tough in the Premier League that it takes time to recover in between.

Obviously, as a young, young, hungry fighter, I'd like to be fighting three or four times a year.

When I was playing week-in week-out, I was playing 46 games a season, and there's nothing better than playing every week.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

Even in my first year in the UFC I fought five times in the year.

I don't want to train for every contest the way I do for the Fourth of July. It would be impossible.

If I can compete five, six times a year that would be perfect.

I think it's especially hard when you start at an academy, because everything is decided for you. And then when you go with U.S.T.A., there's only so many decisions you can make.

It is always difficult to leave your mates and your club in the middle of the season for another competition.