I’ve heard that I’m a wrestler and not a real fighter, but I have nothing to prove to anybody.
I don’t wanna fight a street fighter.
If I was going to play any video game, it’d be things like ‘Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!,’ ‘Street Fighter’ and ‘Mortal Kombat.’
The success of ‘The Fighter’ made it a lot easier to get ‘Broken City’ green-lit. And the buzz about ‘The Fighter’ also made it a lot easier to get ‘Contraband’ green-lit.
Cain Velasquez, he has some technical difficulties, but he has ambition, and he’s fearless. He wants to win so badly, and he’s in great condition. He’s a thinking fighter.
I am a fighter and I will fight anybody.
I’m a good fighter. You can’t keep me hidden for too long.
For some reason, that’s the title they’re giving me: ”The Ultimate Fighter’ Destroyer.’
My dream is to be the best fighter at 155 pounds in the world.
Holly Holm is a heck of an athlete and a heck of a fighter.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a better experience in the sport than coaching ‘The Ultimate Fighter.’ I got to do it twice, but I got to really build relationships there that will last forever.
I am a combat veteran and a working mom and a fighter, and I’ve already been successful taking on the dark forces in D.C.
I’m a vale-tudo fighter.
My grandfather was a Tuskegee Airman. He flew with the 100th Fighter Squadron.
The worst damage a person – a fighter or even a person that’s just everyday living – is shorten your life by your lifestyle.
I really believe that I’m a better fighter than Gabriel Gonzaga.
A good choreographer is one that’s going to collaborate, teach, guide – everything. The wonderful thing on ‘Brotherhood of the Wolf’ was that we had Philip Kwok – he choreographed John Woo’s ‘Hard Boiled,’ and in the ’70s, he was a martial arts actor, stunt man, fighter, choreographer in Hong Kong.
Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.
I was sent to Washington by the people of the state of Ohio. We have a diverse state. I am advocate and a fighter for this state.
There’s never been a southpaw fighter to make it five rounds with me. These are championship fights, and most of them can’t even make it out of the normal rounds. Fought Chael Sonnen, TKOed him in round one. Fought Vitor Belfort. He made it to round four when I ended up submitting him.
You learn a lot as a coach when you sit back and tell someone what to do, and then you realize, ‘Hey, I need to start doing that myself.’ I think coaching can improve a fighter’s game tremendously.
The longer I’m in this sport, the more I realize that it’s not about the wins and losses that makes you a good fighter. It’s about putting the time in and fighting the best guys possible and going after them. The outcome will take care of itself.
I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.
I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.
Briedis is a good fighter, but the only thing he has that I want is his belt.
Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up.
I’ve been in all kinds of various arrangements of chain of command, and I was very comfortable – and everybody was – and I think the music shows that. I’m an honorary Foo Fighter, I guess. Or alumni or something. I’m proud to be one.
Some people work their entire lives to become a professional fighter and see certain guys with exposure or just a name, hop into the professional ranks. It can rub people the wrong way and have them very doubtful of your skills because they see first-hand the hard work and how many years it takes to master this.
I think footwork is one of the most important things to becoming a great fighter. That’s where everything starts.
Being the guy that ended the run of the greatest fighter ever will always be attached to my name.
I’m a fighter. I’m a lover.
One of my brothers teaches karate at our gym and also handles the administrative side of the gym. My other brother is a fighter like me and teaches a class at the gym. So my brothers are always at the gym together training.
He’s a very, very clever fighter, Manny, but you’d have to say the cleverest fighter in boxing is Mayweather. He adapts his style against whatever opponent he faces.
I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make ‘The Fighter’, and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success.
I’m a street fighter.
Ultimately, when two professionals meet, I don’t really see the location as being a defining factor. If you’re a psychologically weak fighter, maybe it would be. But if you’re a seasoned pro, it doesn’t really come into it.
The reason I like Olympic boxing is that all the best fighters come together and find out who the best fighter is.
When I trained for ‘Creed,’ I had about a year in advance to know what I was doing before. So I lived like a fighter, you know? I went through the workout routine, the diet, training with real boxers, training with real trainers, did the whole thing.
You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.
Everybody needs money, but I’m a fighter. For what I make, I’m happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it’s about honor.
Fury made a name for himself in America, and as a fighter, you have to establish yourself there, first and foremost, to be known worldwide.
I was in my junior year of high school and I had been playing soccer and basketball almost my entire life, and I wanted a change of pace. I wanted to do something more, something different. That’s when I found an MMA gym about 45 minutes from my house and fell in love with the idea of becoming a professional fighter.
My coach never looked at me as a female fighter, but just as a fighter, as someone he was training. I had to work just as hard as the guys, or harder than them.
I feel like being a professional wrestling has definitely made me a better MMA fighter.
I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying became more like a project, and I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which I did. I became a fighter pilot.
I always wondered, like, you know how you go to the family barbecue, and your uncle is that funny guy that you laugh at because he’s family? That’s how I felt with ‘Fighter and the Kid.’ People would laugh at my stuff, but it was always tough for me to tell. I just needed to see if there was something going on.
If you fight a hungry fighter and you look into their eyes and you’re not as hungry as they are, that’s when you get eaten up.
It’s simple, I’m a fighter, but on top of that I have to entertain the people.
The children of the world, what they want and what they need are health clinics and schools, not tanks or armed helicopters or fighter jets.
I’m an aggressive fighter, but I’m smart. I’m not going to play stupid.
I’m a good fighter, a good boxer.
I don’t prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don’t choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
I think what separates me from the candidates is the fact that I have a proven track record of being a fighter. A fighting for what people believe in, whether it is popular or not. Despite the opposition, I stand true. Because people know that I will do what I say. And that I say what I do.
You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.
The takeover of the U.S. House by Republicans could prompt a revival of the fight for additional funding for the Marietta-built F-22 stealth fighter. This isn’t just for the sake of home-cooking, but also for the sake of the country.
I’m really a fighter against modernism equaling brutalism.
All my life, I’ve been the rebel in the X-wing fighter, and then one morning, I woke up, and I was on board the Death Star.
Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That’s when it’s so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.
I’m blessed with the fact that I’m a fighter. I’ve always known life was meant to be joyful.
Amir Khan is a very good fighter, but he has been knocked out a few times when he has stepped up.
I’ve always been a fighter – it’s always been a part of my personality.
Life throws you curveballs and there are things that happen – you don’t understand why they happened at the time. But then you step back and understand you’re a better fighter and competitor because of the things that happened.
