Fighting Discipline Quotes

Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

In combat sports, you should retire on top. That is very hard to do. I'm glad I had the discipline to do it.

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.

I do what I do for a job. This is fighting. This is a bloody sport. It's not a nice sport.

I won't fight Thiago Silva. I won't fight Cezar 'Mutante' Ferreira. I won't fight anybody who I train with.

If you are out there golfing, and you hit a bad shot, anyone who knows golf will tell you that you just have to forget about it. If you don't, you'll hit another bad one and another and then another. It plays with your head. It's the same way in a fight.

Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they've gotten their ass kicked before.

In fighting, if you get hit in the face, you don't show it. You can't show it.

There wasn't much money in this sport when I started, but I didn't get into it because of money. I loved to fight, and I loved MMA.

I love who I am, and I want to stay in MMA.

Every time the UFC brings me out, I'm always professional. I'm always on time. I make weight.

I'm just blessed that fighting was an option. Now I'm doing it and I love it. I thank God every day that I'm in the sport.

In mixed martial arts, if you get kicked in the face, it's your job not to show any expression to your opponent.

You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.