Mma famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The more dangerous the situation I put myself into, the more I rise, the better I become.
-- Eddie Alvarez -
You look good, you feel good. You feel good, you fight good.
-- Eddie Alvarez -
I'm not much of a planner. I set a goal and there really is nothing else... no plan B.
-- Eddie Alvarez -
If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life... I try to live my life the same way.
-- Eddie Alvarez -
I was diagnosed with paranoia for fear of never smoking weed again.
-- Eddie Bravo -
The only guys that make it through are the guys that make it through are the guys that have a complete control of their ego where they tap out in the beginning, all the time, you're always losing in the beginning... Your ego can get bruised if you don't have control of it. So what ends up happens is Jiu Jitsu is the ultimate douchebag filter.
-- Eddie Bravo -
MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow... The stress and the fears and anxiety you've got to overcome in that moment is not something you're ever going to gain in a daily lifetime routine.
-- Enson Inoue -
MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.
-- Enson Inoue -
It's not about being tough but to accept your weaknesses and work to get stronger day by day.
-- Enson Inoue -
Awkward, odd, and difficult situations will always present themselves. You just have to stay cool and work through them.
-- Erik Apple -
A fight is a fight. And life is a fight. No matter how many fights you have under your belt, it will continue to be a learning experience. And you can never prepare yourself for every scenario. Awkward, odd, and difficult situations will always present themselves. You just have to stay cool and work through them.
-- Erik Apple -
Believe that you can even as a single individual, you can change the world.
-- Evan Tanner -
I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts.
-- Evander Holyfield -
Spirit, like body, needs to be trained. So I think it's necessary to make your spirit stronger. And for he who believes, anything is possible.
-- Fedor Emelianenko -
I do not talk about my weaknesses, I work on them.
-- Fedor Emelianenko -
A strong person will not be nervous and not express aggression towards his opponent... he will face the fight calm and balanced.
-- Fedor Emelianenko -
I've never pumped myself up or made myself angry as some sportsmen do. I think that one should treat his opponent with great respect.
-- Fedor Emelianenko -
During the fight my senses dim, and basically, I don't feel any pain.
-- Fedor Emelianenko -
I've done some things that I shouldn't have done but I know I'm not a bad person, and I know that I can become a better person... Only thing I can do is work at it.
-- Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Fame is cool but I believe in success.
-- Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I just got the will to win at life.
-- Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Just live every day like it's your last day and be the best person that you can be.
-- Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Control all the variables you can... don't worry about the rest.
-- Forrest Griffin -
Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.
-- Forrest Griffin -
If you're humble in defeat, everyone may still kick you, but they won't kick you as much.
-- Forrest Griffin -
Do things that make your body and mind scream at you to quit, but don't.
-- Forrest Griffin -
My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.
-- Forrest Griffin -
In order to keep up with the rapid evolution of the sport, you've got to keep an open mind.
-- Forrest Griffin -
Any big task if you look at the grand picture... it seems to big to accomplish, so just watch the footstep in front of you... And that's what I do; try and win little battles every day.
-- Forrest Griffin -
Fear is a good thing because it keeps you alive, but if it becomes so great that it hinders you from doing what you want, you need to confront it head-on
-- Forrest Griffin -
There's two things you need to know. One, that you won't quit on yourself, and two, that I've done the work.
-- Forrest Griffin -
Try again. Fall flat on your face, get up, try again. Fall on your face, get up, try again.
-- Frank Mir -
There are situations where you can either rise to the occasion or you can feel sorry for yourself. Really that's within your own abilities to make that decision.
-- Frank Mir -
Be patient, be diligent. Consistency is the key.
-- Frank Mir -
It's a never-ending process to try to make yourself the best person you possibly can.
-- Frank Mir -
Perfection's awesome... So I strive for it every day.
-- Frank Mir -
When I'm doing my best is when I'm completely focused... You completely wipe off any thoughts of the future, there's nothing going on in the past, you're just completely locked in on the moment, and there's no thinking, you're zoned in on this moment in time.
-- Frank Mir -
When you have harmony in the different areas of your life, with your mind, body, and spirit, you're just so much stronger, especially in really intense stressful situations.
-- Frank Shamrock -
When you're angry, you can't fight rationally. Your body chemistry is all messed up. Your energy goes to all the wrong places. You can't do anything well except get angrier. That's why I like fighting guys who are pumped up on steroids. Fighting is all about relaxing and releasing tension, so your body is flexible and fluid, able to bend and flex quickly, like water. I like fighting angry guys who are really tense. They can't think right, and they can't fight right.
-- Frank Shamrock -
There's always tomorrow; that's the martial way.
-- Frank Shamrock -
I believe there is a champion in all of us.
-- Frank Shamrock -
Training, a lot of the time, is just uncomfortable. But discipline is all about doing the thing that's uncomfortable.
-- Frank Shamrock -
When you're in there fighting, there's an energy and there's a focus that is nearly unbreakable.
-- Frank Shamrock -
That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
-- George Foreman -
Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.
-- Georges St-Pierre -
Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to death, I have a lot of doubts of myself, I'm afraid to fail, I'm afraid to be humiliated in front of everybody; but what happens, I act like it's impossible for me to fail and that my victory is a certainty. So as I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence my body takes over my mind and I become confident for real. As I'm walking I see the change in my mind and when I reach the Octagon I'm a different person, I'm very confident.
-- Georges St-Pierre -
A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.
-- Georges St-Pierre -
One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".
-- Georges St-Pierre -
When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.
-- Georges St-Pierre -
One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.
-- Georges St-Pierre -
Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.
-- Georges St-Pierre -
I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.
-- Georges St-Pierre -
Using your imagination to create mental images stimulates your mind, helps organize your life and keeps your focus in a particular direction. It allows your unconscious mind to work toward the image you have created, the goal. It's about understand the life you want to live, and seeing it unfold before you.
-- Georges St-Pierre -
Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.
-- Georges St-Pierre -
Your body can dictate your mind... As I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence, my body take over my mind, and I become confident for real.
-- Georges St-Pierre -
Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.
-- Georges St-Pierre -
Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.
-- Georges St-Pierre -
I'm really surprised how many people knew me as Gina Carano. MMA has a beautiful fan base.
-- Gina Carano -
I'm attracted to any type of endeavor that gives me the chance to express what's going on inside me.
-- Gina Carano -
When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you're never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight.
-- Gina Carano -
When you dream big, you eventually attract big things.
-- Gina Carano -
It's something that I've always loved to do and it's been such a genuine expression for me.
-- Gina Carano -
People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.
-- Gina Carano -
Fighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble.
-- Gina Carano -
Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.
-- Gina Carano -
I'm afraid of pretty much everything, but there's something inside me that is addicted to scaring myself.
-- Gina Carano -
My first love is MMA... it's something that I did because it made me feel good.
-- Gina Carano -
When you do things for the right reasons, eventually no matter how long it takes, people will take notice of it and can't help but respect it.
-- Gina Carano -
I love it. It's something I can do that makes everything else disappear.
-- Gina Carano -
The sun will rise tomorrow, even if you get knocked out in 30 seconds.
-- Greg Jackson -
There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.
-- Greg Jackson -
You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable... so that when we get our 15 minutes in the cage, we don't panic, we don't break down.
-- Greg Jackson -
I get a huge kick out of training people, out of helping people, out of just being a part of a process that I get to see people's dreams come true.
-- Greg Jackson -
Every day is one day closer to the dirt, so you got to go hard.
-- Greg Jackson -
Why do people watch fights?... They watch it for inspiration.
-- Greg Jackson -
I always look at things as, instead of a problem, how is this an opportunity?
-- Greg Jackson -
Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.
-- Greg Jackson -
Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.
-- Greg Jackson -
One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.
-- Gretchen Rubin -
When it comes to fighting you shouldn't be thinking at all. You have to clear your mind and trust yourself completely.
-- Gunnar Nelson -
Nobody is born a winner, but anyone can develop the way of thought that guides you to the right direction.
-- Gunnar Nelson -
I dont think about what my opponent will do in the fight and especially what he has to say about me - doesn't matter to me at all.
-- Gunnar Nelson -
Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.
-- Gunnar Nelson -
I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.
-- Gunnar Nelson -
It's not about the past or the future, it's about right now.
-- Gunnar Nelson -
To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.
-- Helio Gracie -
If you have a dream don't let anyone talk you out of it.
-- Henry Cejudo -
Discipline. Honour. Respect. This is why I appreciate MMA.
-- Houston Alexander -
Even my momma asked what I'mma do. Decisions, decisions/ In case this is war, then I load up on all ammunition/ If a n----a want problems, my trigger's on auto.
-- J. Cole -
And y'all scared I can tell That I'mma get Bucks like Milwaukee, cause like Sam, I ca' sell.
-- Jadakiss -
I do everything in my power to get myself to a 100% so I can perform to my potential... that's all I can ask for.
-- Jake Ellenberger -
When can you enjoy something you'll continue to do it and you'll continue to have that want to grow.
-- Jake Ellenberger
