Fighter's Life Quotes

Any man who steps in the ring, I give them respect because we're trying to feed our family and this is how we do it.

I've been boxing since I was eight, and that's a long time to take punches day after day.

I've been in the ring. I've fought in a title fight. I know what it is like to lose a fight. I know everything a fighter has been through.

I don't do fight camps anymore because I live in camp.

I never wanted to do anything else but fight, when I was a kid. I never had any broader perspective of my own perspective. I didn't know anything about anything else. I just wanted to fight until I could fight no more, and then I wanted to own a bar and drink and tell war stories.

Having the letters UFC behind my name is not the be-all, end-all it is for someone. Some people think once they get into the UFC, that's it.

Who sees Wanderlei Silva today, with all the marketing, with a good gym and getting paid well to fight, they don't know the difficulties I went through. I went through a lot of hardships in my life.

I don't think I'll be fighting when I'm 40.

Boxing's been good to me.

It's a really complicated road if you're an MMA fighter.

You have to eat, all day, and you have to have the right fuel to get you through different physical and mental obstacles that fighters have to get through. Just dealing with the diet alone becomes an all-encompassing, fully immersive experience. And then, there's the physical side of it, having to put your body through everything required to make you look like a fighter.

There is more to Shannon Briggs than a fighter.

When I first started, I lived in Vegas because I was fighting in the UFC, and I was still fighting after the UFC.

It feels like my life is much more than fighting in the Octagon.

I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

What I love the most about being a pro fighter is meeting the people. You get to meet all the fans and new friends that you get to meet up with all the time.

Steven Gerrard wanted to speak to me, so I went to see him and we had a sit down over my future. He's someone who had pretty much been in the public eye his whole life, and now that I was going to be in bigger fights earning better money, he took it upon himself to give me a talking to about what I should do next.

I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.