Top 44 Cub Swanson Quotes

I’m fast and I move well so I know how to come in at weird angles and keep my feet under me. I’m looking for that power shot and I might not be able to fire off anything after it if my feet aren’t under me. Footwork is a huge part of my game.

I feel like my work speaks for itself.

Going five rounds is never fun.

There are young guys coming up, trying to make their name off me, and I’m a stubborn dude. I don’t want to let that happen. That’s very motivating.

Golf didn’t seem like it was for everybody. I didn’t grow up with a whole lot of money, and my perception was that golf was for a snootier crowd.

I always thought I would make it as a professional athlete but I thought it would be playing soccer.

I let my fighting do the talking, I don’t have to put on great show and dance to make it bigger than it is.

Being the more experienced fighter absolutely gives you added confidence.

I understand I’m an entertainer and a fighter as well.

For a little while I kind of shunned away from the media and just concentrated on my skill sets and performing and I got that down.

My stubbornness of wanting this fighting career has saved me.

I’m not the kind of guy who plays it safe. I fight for the crowd. That’s what makes me happy.

If I never fought for the belt, it wouldn’t bother me. That whole song and dance gets tiring, and it’s a lot of playing favorites. I’ve just had it dangled in front of me so many times, I’m just like, whatever, man.

After I lost to Chad Mendes, that was a point in my life when everything had changed, I really didn’t know why I was fighting anymore, for a brief amount of time.

That’s what I want. I want the big fights, not only to get the title shot but to secure my future and whatever I pursue after fighting.

I love fighting for the UFC, it’s been awesome for me.

I would never say yes to a fight that would take me out of the title picture if I’m in it. If I did it, I’d want to be compensated. That’s the important thing. If you ask me to do something like that, I need to be compensated correctly.

I’m a fan of many fighters but as soon as they start looking at me, the fighter in me comes out and I’m like, ‘You better watch your damn mouth.’

I’m going to get paid the most if I fight for a title or hold a title. That’s when all of the big opportunities come.

I feel like when the public, when the fans are ready to see me fight for the title, whoever they want to see me fight, then that’s what I need to do cause that’s my job.

I like steering kids toward golf. If they really have it in their blood to fight, then fine, but it’s a hell of a job. Golf is a safer bet.

Footwork isn’t something you hear people talk about too much but it’s something as fighters we have to be able to utilize.

I’ve always trained hard and I’ve never slacked.

For a long time, I’ve been an overthinker. The problem with that is when you’re in perfect shape for a fight and you’ve got everything worked out and you’ve got all the moves you think you’re going to need and everything’s fine but in your own mind you’re going to make up things and you just add pressure.

In my mind, I’m always one win away from a title.

I’m able to perform to my best on a given night, and that’s all I can ask of myself.

In my whole career, I’ve never fought for a belt, so that’s something that I would like to do, or at least have the opportunity to do.

I’m not one of the guys who talks a lot, I don’t enjoy that, I’ve always believed in just going out there and putting on the best show possible.

Any time I’ve been knocked down, I’ve come back even better. I think everyone knows that about me.

I feel terrible for what I put my mom through, thinking I was a man and all the stupid decisions I used to make.

I’m just not into the whole begging for a title fight, managers try to get a whole campaign going… If you want to give me the title shot, then just give it to me, I’ll show up and I’ll perform, but for me, my fighting speaks for itself.

I walk around about 175-180 pounds, and get up to about 185.

You look at my fight with Holloway, I don’t even tell my corner I broke my hand and I broke my jaw and I fought three rounds. That’s just what I do, in my mind I’m thinking I can still win this, I can still win this. That’s your thing is to never give up.

I want to test myself.

When I knock people out, they’re not getting up.

It is very important I live up to my own expectations as far as popularity and knowing that I left my mark on the sport.

I don’t want a broken jaw again.

I’m not the biggest media guy, I just like to fight.

I think money isn’t everything.

I decided to pursue MMA after training Brazilian jiu-jitsu for about a year and seeing my first fight. I told myself, that looks scary but I think I could do that.

When I was super young, and everybody who has been in fan of mine from the WEC days, I was just tough as nails, fearless and that’s what made me tick. I’m not those things anymore. I’m fearless, but I plan ahead. I’m strategic. I’m smarter, and I’m just a different person than I was.

I’m just not going to let anybody build their name off of me.

I don’t beg.

I’m not going to shy away from a brawl.