Gilbert Melendez famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm not scared to lose, I'm not scared to get knocked out. I'm scared of not going for it.
-- Gilbert Melendez

#Ufc #Mma #Going For It
You're a black belt in the 1st round but sometimes you're a purple belt in the 5th.
-- Gilbert Melendez

#Mma #Purple #Black
A true friend to me is someone that comes over for dinner, and hangs out with my daughter, someone I party with on a regular basis.
-- Gilbert Melendez

#Daughter #True Friend #Party
Russian fighters are always bouncing around and using a lot of effort with the punches they throw and grinding for takedowns. Anyone would get tired with that style.
-- Gilbert Melendez

#Tired #Effort #Style
U.S. wrestling is more of a scrambling style where guys take a lot of risks. You could watch a match in the states and see a score of 18-12. There is going to be a lot of action, transitions and guys going back and forth and trading points.
-- Gilbert Melendez

#Wrestling #Guy #Risk
The Russians are a little stronger, but they excel at the basics. Lock the hands, bear hugs, takedowns, riding are all strong points for them, whereas Americans tend to have more finesse and take more risks. They might let you up in order to hit something else, and that's completely different from the Russian approach.
-- Gilbert Melendez

#Strong #Hands #Order

I always come back around. I make it work.
Movement is meditation. Move to win.
UFC 151 will be remembered as the event Jon Jones and Greg Jackson murdered.
My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one."
Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.
You can't be too comfortable. I have to keep pushing myself to be a better fighter every step of the way.
I didn't get into fighting for the money. I didn't want to be famous. I just want to fight.
Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity
Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it?
One of the magical things about photography is the transformation that takes place when you photograph something. Something that inherently has very little going for it in terms of the interest you take in it, can become infinitely more interesting when rendered as a photograph. It's no longer a building. It's a photograph.

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