Top 500 Fighter Quotes

When we’re on the football field, it’s me vs. him. Maybe it’s me vs. two of them. Maybe it’s me vs. three of them. It’s a fight. And you have to take that fighter’s mentality out there.

I’m not fanatical or in love with being an MMA fighter.

I’m a fighter, not a quitter.

The homegrown terrorists are the most significant because any fighter returning from Syria to the United States would likely be identified and detected by our intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

I’m a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

As a child, during the war, I drew Spitfires and Messerschmitts. With Spot, I found that I had designed a fuselage! His spot is on his side, the roundel marking of an English fighter plane, and the color bar of his tail is the color stripes of a plane’s rudder.

It’s not uncommon for some Khmer boxers to fight with dangerous frequency, sometimes as often as weekly or bi-weekly, getting up to three hundred or more fights in a career, with the length of a career varying from fighter to fighter, some engaging in bouts far past their prime.

I’ve been in the ring. I’ve fought in a title fight. I know what it is like to lose a fight. I know everything a fighter has been through.

I am a fighter. I never give up.

I would describe and I have described myself to people who ask as a freedom fighter.

People always say, ‘I want to be the best fighter in the world.’ That’s why I respect Conor. He said he wants to be the best fighter in the world, and he’s trying to prove it.

We’re all fighting for a reason. We’re not fighting to just fight. There’s got to be some type of reward at the end of the rainbow and that reward is a big, shiny, UFC gold belt. That changes every fighter’s life dramatically for the better.

The woeful tales of ‘Super Mario Bros.’ and ‘Street Fighter’ have taught studios that merely slapping a name to a movie is not enough to bring in the fans of the franchise. Also, the way games now unfold their stories more parallels that of a movie, with characters and plot points actually meaning as much as a high score.

I wouldn’t say I’m the best MMA fighter but I’m working on it every day and I’m getting better and better.

I’m enjoying my life as a fighter, but more as a human and this is what matters.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin’, but I felt like a fighter comin’ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

I believe in myself. I want to be a fighter. I want to be heavyweight champion of the world.

I want to go against the best fighters. That’s why I’m always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don’t have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he’s a great fighter.

People with conservative temperaments don’t become fighter pilots or presidential candidates – they’re all that way to some extent.

Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson’s cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield’s ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter.

It’s hard to criticise a fighter when you’re not in the ring doing what we do.

The way I lived my life, I truly wasn’t an active resistance fighter.

Boxing is a sport, but it’s also entertainment. I wanted to transcend the sport and be considered just not as a fighter, or a champion, but someone very special.

I’m a fighter now. I’m officially a mixed martial artist. I’m not a wrestler no more.

Right now, it’s very difficult to single out one fighter, pound-for-pound, who is the best. Right now, it’s very complex. Miguel Cotto, Mayweather and Zab Judah’s a good fighter as well.

Having been a fighter for 25 years, I know how to handle the fear. The fear is there, but I use it to motivate me.

I am not looking at Dec Spelman as if he is a fighter I can just walk through. I don’t go out looking for knockouts.

I’m a real fighter.

‘The Fighter’ was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.

I think, as a fighter, I kept improving. My movements improved, my accuracy improved.

I like feeling like I could probably fail, because it makes me find a part of myself that I didn’t really know: an inner fighter in me.

I know Canelo before. He’s a good guy. Good fighter.

People go and hide, but I don’t. I’m a fighter.

People say people who spend too many years in prison don’t know how to act when they get free. I don’t know how I am going to act, how I am going to kill time, once I am not a fighter. Retirement scares me, and I have to think about how I am going to handle it.

My opponent DeLuca is a strong, gutsy fighter who is always ready for war.

Jazz is a fighter. The word ‘jazz’ means to me, ‘I dare you. Let’s jump into the unknown!’

I don’t want to be just a regular great fighter. I want to be the best.

I’m a prize fighter. Titles don’t pay bills. I fight for money. I’m making money. They’re making money. Everybody’s making money. That’s what this is all about.

There’s always going to be people talking so you just have to focus everyday and be the best fighter you can be in the Octagon on the day of the fight.

I’m a fighter, and I’ll always be a fighter, and it’s what I love to do.

I was pretty dreadful on my first night as an announcer as back in those days the scorecards were written in a very strange way so that didn’t help and some of the fighter’s names were unpronounceable.

I need more fights to get better as a fighter. And I will keep getting better.

I’ve been a fighter all my life. I just don’t look like that.

Everybody has those certain fighters they follow and that they really put on a high pedestal. They want to give the most shine that they possibly can. They look for any reason to break down a fighter’s performance to when it isn’t their favorite fighter in any positive thought.

I don’t have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he’s a great fighter. I think he’s a nice guy just like everybody else, and he’s a great role model. I would love to be that too if I was in that position.

One thing you understand quickly as a fighter is that you’re not punching with eight or 10 oz. Gloves. We’ve got 4 oz. gloves. It only takes one good shot for a fight to be over.

Of course, every time I get beat out there, I want to avenge those losses. I’m sure every fighter does.

Normally, I’ve found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I’ve had a chance and the honor to serve with didn’t pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

Woodley has tremendous athleticism, brings a lot of technique – well-rounded fighter.

My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a man, who was this great sword fighter, and the captain fell in love with her.

A fighter walks in the room and people are like ‘oooo’ because everyone is trying to be a tough guy.

Of course every fighter, whether they admit it or not, they have aches and pains and they go into fights hurt.

Any fighter who is serious about boxing wants to be in those big fights, fighting the best fighters, with the whole country watching and talking about it.

Against any fighter out there I’d back myself 100 per cent. I don’t care who you are, what title you’ve got. Once we’re in the ring I’m just going to perform to the best of my ability, go out and give it all I’ve got.

My first contract I was offered by the UFC, or my second contract, it was 1-and-1, 2-and-2, 3-and-3. That’s $12,000 for the year. Don’t complain to me about fighter pay. It was $12,000 for a year, and it was exclusive.

I’m going to be the best fighter I can be and focus on being me.

I’m not a UFC athlete. I’m a UFC fighter.

For me, it’s about being a star, being a superstar, and not just winning a world title but becoming the best-ever British fighter this country has ever had. That’s what I am, and that’s what I intend to do.

Mousasi is a very tough fighter.

I admire anyone who can show they can dig deep. Ballesteros and Sergio Garcia, people who are obviously mentally strong. Or Graham Thorpe. He is your fighter. He’s the kid who is bullied at school but will stand up in a fight when it matters.

Some of the things I’ve had to overcome in my past, fighting helped me deal with a lot of struggles. Obstacles in life don’t make you a great fighter, but fighting – or, I should say, martial arts – helps you overcome your obstacles.

I’m an emotional fighter.

My question is why does every African American fighter have to be the villain?

And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department’s business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.