Once a fighter becomes enamoured with another, to the point where they can’t perform and compete, you have got problems.
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can’t be used for manipulation; it’s why you never see good poetry in advertising.
The fighter is born. He cannot be made.
Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
I don’t want to be a cookie-cutter-poster-boy-bubble-gum-chewing fighter.
I’m preparing myself to be a great, great fighter and also a big star in the sport.
I am a fighter. It’s what I am.
Werdum is good, is a smart fighter. He knows how to set up a beautiful strategy.
Getting knocked out in your underwear in the Octagon is pretty embarrassing, but people are like, ‘The guy he’s fighting is really, really good, and he is a UFC fighter, so he can still beat up 99 percent of the world,’ so it’s not that embarrassing.
I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.
I had this dream. I wanted to fly fighter jets. And that’s what I did.
You ask yourself what is it you want? You want results or to show you are such a great fighter? For me I would rather make sure I get good results.
I will absolutely be an advocate and a fighter where necessary.
We need to stop defining Boeing’s future based on a single program or two programs, and we have been doing that with the fighter story. It doesn’t mean it was wrong or right; I just don’t think it represents the great diversity of the Boeing Defense portfolio.
I’m a fighter.
In basketball, there’s a lot of pushing, grabbing, and shoving going on that nobody else sees. That’s why I’m training with MMA fighter Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone.
A boxing ring looks different from the inside, particularly when it’s shared with another man who is intent upon rendering you unconscious. There’s no place to hide. Once a fighter climbs the stairs, he’s roped in, unable to leave until his night’s work is done.
Kids wake up in the morning and say, ‘I want to be a UFC fighter one day,’ just like they do in baseball.
Muhammad Ali – he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon… Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so… But I have no regrets, man. It’s just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he’ll bring me through this.
I’m a purist, and I’m more a fighter than an athlete.
A fighter has to be prepared for anyone, to train every day. That’s what I learned at Chute Boxe.
I wouldn’t argue that Anderson Silva is the best pound-for-pound fighter in MMA.
I made peace with retirement, but when you’re a fighter, you’re always a fighter.
People think coming in under the radar is like being a fighter pilot and actually coming in under the radar. It’s a completely ridiculous idea to come in under the radar. It’s the Olympics; everyone is on the radar here.
As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
I know, every fighter knows, you’ve got to pile up wins in a row. You can’t lose two in a row, three in a row and then you hear mentions of losing your job.
My favorite fighter is Anderson Silva.
Mike Tyson is a good boxer, but he is not the best fighter. I am the best fighter.
I love fighting and will always have the heart of a fighter.
I don’t ever think about, ‘Aw, man, my legacy. My legacy this.’ No, I just want to fight the best fights out there to fight just to prove to the world that I’m the best fighter in the world.
For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday.
Every fighter has to go in there with a game plan.
I’m not a fighter. If there’s something going on that I really feel strongly about, I’ll certainly stand up but I pick my battles.
I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.
I picked Tony Bellew because he is the man that takes the biggest challenges. He is not the usual type of fighter that will come, see how hard it is, and quit. He will come to fight until the end. These are the kind of fights that the world wants to see.
My daughter has changed me. She has made me grow up quicker because I don’t just have a kid, I have a baby girl. She has made me more patient. I am actually soft when I get around her. I don’t think she changed me as a fighter, but she has changed me as a person. She has helped me mature.
For what we do training, as a fighter, you have to be able to flip that switch where you turn into that savage, that guy that’s prepared to go to war.
I would love to have a crack at Michael Bisping – with or without the gold, I’d want to have a crack at him because I respect him as a fighter, and he’s a tough dude, and I’d love to swing it out with him.
I had Jake Ellenberger. I trained very hard for him; then I was able to get Carlos Condit, an excellent fighter. That’s what it’s all about.
When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that’s when we did it. I think we did it.
It’s definitely been a progression, but I always knew I could be a great fighter. I could feel it inside of myself.
It was an absolute honour to fight in Vegas. Every fighter dreams of fighting at the MGM Grand. That’s where so many legends have fought before and so many legends will continue to fight.
Amir Khan is Amir Khan. He’s a great fighter; he’s got great attributes. But Prince Naseem brought something completely different to any other fighter in the whole world.
Sometimes the fighter or an athlete feels they’re valued a certain price, and sometimes we don’t feel that way.
I’ve always been a fighter. I can get pretty feisty sometimes.
I’ve always been a clean fighter, always lifting weights.
Not everything happens as we want or desire. It doesn’t matter. I’m a fighter, and I’m ready to fight every time.
I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing’s capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.
The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.
I have six-year-old fans that weren’t even around for ‘Genie in a Bottle’ or even ‘Fighter.’
Every fighter thinks about their legacy, and I’m not any different.
Fighter, father, husband – it’s all the same person. I know the UFC stereotype is that we’re all thugs. But I’d like people to know that I don’t have to switch one off to try to be another. Being a father and a fighter, it’s who I am.
I am building a foundation in Cameroon, and it’s not just about the sport. The goal of the foundation is not to make a UFC fighter. It’s to help kids believe in their dream, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life.
It’s not my place to compare myself to greats like Tyson, Frazier or men like that. But I would look at a fighter like Evander Holyfield. He’s a great heavyweight who worked his way up through the weight classes to become champion and had to beat bigger men along the way.
I never gave up. I’m a fighter.
The perfect fighter has never been born and never will be.
I just want to be a better fighter, plain and simple.
I’m working relentlessly at becoming a better fighter than I was yesterday. I think I’ve really shown that I’m a more evolved fighter these days than I’ve ever been.
I’m a competitive player, a fighter, and I always try to improve what I think needs improving.
I don’t think Anderson Silva is less of a fighter.
I’m happy where I’m at now, but I want to show the world that I’m the No. 1 fighter. I want to prove it the world. I’m focused and ready.
I know this sounds ridiculous, but I’m not much of a fighter.
I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
If there is illness in your home, do you not need a doctor from outside? If your home catches on fire, do you not need fire fighters from outside? God has sent me to America in the role of a doctor, in the role of a fire fighter.
Nobody should underestimate me. When you have a self-made fighter like I am with the Pride belt I earned, it’s not good to underestimate him.
