Totally different challenges, but being a dad and fighting both wear you out.
— Chuck Liddell
If you watch fights cage-side, sometimes different punches look better than others. It's like camera angles. Sometimes some punches look a lot better than they were, and sometimes a solid punch doesn't look good. So it just depends on your angle.
I never expected it, but I've gotten paid a lot to do what I love. There are no complaints.
I don't ever go into a fight wanting to hurt someone. I just want to show them that I am better than them, and if they get hurt, it's part of the sport.
I've never been intimidated by anyone.
I'm one of those guys: I'm out there trying to punch you out and to hurt you, but as soon as I'm done, hopefully there's nothing wrong with you; I'm hoping that you're okay.
I think, as a fighter, I kept improving. My movements improved, my accuracy improved.
Every time I win, I prove something: I'm the best guy in the world at what I do.
If I weren't fighting, I'd be in the business world.
When I'm training at home, I have five meals for the day that I just heat up. It's all planned, and that's what I eat.
I try to take two weeks off after a fight and then get back to working out four or five times a week.
Train hard, get good coaching, and don't forget that its mixed martial arts. Don't get tied into one style of fighting, and focus on multiple disciplines.
I started doing martial arts since I was 12, and then I went into wrestling in college. After I met John Hackleman, I started getting really serious about it, and after a few amateur fights, I got an invite to the UFC and have been in love with it ever since.
I'm not an emotional fighter.
I was the guy that would cram for everything, so I guess I was a bit of a slacker. I was a procrastinator. I spent a lot of all-nighters getting ready for tests.
I've got a puncher's chance against anybody.
The fans have been really good to me. I thank everyone for all the support.
I like Glover Teixeira; he's a former training partner.
I used to be able to pick out the UFC fans when I was in the airport. Now, it could be anybody.
When it comes to damage, boxing will cause more damage than MMA ever will.
I basically follow a modified Zone Diet. I have my food prepared weekly and eat 6 times a day.
I don't read a lot of MMA news. I try to stay out of it.
I have a great time with the kids. I'm always happy when they're around.
I have absolutely no dancing background. I think I took one swing class when I was in college, with a friend of mine. I think I went twice.
There's nobody in the world I wouldn't fight.
You have to learn your own details before you can teach them.
I eat a balanced diet.
When I'm training for a fight, I work out two or three times a day for five days a week.
I've never found that getting physical is ever the best response in a bar. You just have to make sure you keep your distance, and if it gets to a point where it gets aggressive, then the best thing to do is go get a bouncer and get the situation resolved intelligently.
I play fantasy football every year.
I eat more when I'm not training as much. But I get in the gym, and when I feel my gut, I try to eat healthy for some of my meals.
Numbers have always come easy to me.
Someone said Anderson Silva and GSP would be a $12 million fight. I told people that for $12 million, I'd fight them both right now. At the same time. People took that as 'He's going to fight again.' It was a joke. But if you came up with $12 million, yeah, of course I will fight again.
Aldo needed to feel McGregor out. Coming right at him ran into McGregor's game. I thought he'd start by taking him down and confuse him a little. Maybe he had all that stuff planned, but one combo, and Aldo got caught. That happens, especially with a guy as talented and precise and full of power as Conor.
The worst thing is losing because you got tired, because you didn't work hard enough in training. Ugh, that's the worst.
The most excited you'll ever see me is after knocking a guy out.
We run on the beach some days, and others, we run hills behind the gym. We also do several hours of grappling each week as mixed with some intense cardio in the ring.
I come from a wrestling background but don't really use it in most of my fights.
I'm a fighter, and I'll always be a fighter, and it's what I love to do.
My grandpa never got to see me fight. He always thought that I was the best in the world. He always told me that.
Dancing is a lot lower-impact than ultimate fighting, but it takes a lot longer, and I burn the same amount of calories.
I did well in school, was the captain of the wrestling team and the football team, and always got along well with people, so I'm sure I would have gotten a job in the real world. I probably wouldn't have liked that, though.
You can actually find a lot of gyms that do teach mixed martial arts. But it's just like with any martial art - you've got to look at the coaches, go watch some classes, see how people treat each other and how the coaches treat the students.
I try to stay in shape and am always consistently working out.
I think some of the most important exercises are all the core exercises that you can do to maximize training in certain areas of your body.
I do genuinely dislike Tito Ortiz, and I don't have anything to prove to him.
I do some weightlifting, a lot of different weight stuff, strength and conditioning stuff, a little bit of everything.
I grew up while I was in college. I learned how to take care of myself. I learned how to prioritize things. I learned how to get things done.
Mountain Dew was my favorite drink through college; it kept me up studying for a lot of tests.
People still thank me for the stuff I did for this sport, and I appreciate everything people say.
