Fighting Skill Quotes

The Eubank fight was my hardest fight.

Thiago Santos is a guy who can take your belt from you with one punch.

I've never been the biggest boxing fan. If I know the guy I will watch him. But if it's two great fighters and I don't know either of them then I won't bother.

I've been in the ring with big-muscled heavyweights and cruiserweights, who couldn't punch the skin off a rice pudding, and then I've taken on light welterweights and light middleweights, and they hit hard, and you can see they're not trying.

When push comes to shove, I'm a fighter, and I'm going to force someone to fight. It takes a lot of technique, it takes a lot of skill, but to take that, and make something of it, it's a lot of heart and a lot of determination, and that's something I have. That's who I am.

I just don't want to be a champion; I want to be one of the best fighters there ever was.

Everybody wants to be a good fighter.

I love it when fighters are textbook.

I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

I really believe that I'm a better fighter than Gabriel Gonzaga.

What you see is what you get. I'm the real deal. That's why I can step into the ring after having many months off and not have any rust. I'm still working out, stretching.

That's right, karate... made my whole body a weapon.

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

I've trained with Douglas Lima, he's a tough kid, but I could feel the weight difference.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

I want to fight the guys that are world-class beaters. That's who I want to get in there with.

There's never been a southpaw fighter to make it five rounds with me. These are championship fights, and most of them can't even make it out of the normal rounds. Fought Chael Sonnen, TKOed him in round one. Fought Vitor Belfort. He made it to round four when I ended up submitting him.

He knows I'm brutal. He's knows I can punch hard. He knows if I connect on his chin, at any one moment, 12 three minute rounds, he's going to be in serious trouble. If he's not on the floor, his legs will do a funny dance.

I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world.

Chael is a pretty tough and strategic opponent and very hard to put down.

My fifth pro fight, I got my first title fight.

What it really comes down to is that I believe I'm the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, and to do that, I need to beat the best.

I don't ask to fight anybody. All I ask is to fight the best fighters in the world.

I wouldn't argue that Anderson Silva is the best pound-for-pound fighter in MMA.