It’s like a prize fighter. He knows he has a fight coming up, so he gets in the gym and trains. So when I have a show coming up, I practice yodeling.
I don’t care what you say about me anymore! I don’t care what you write about me anymore. I don’t care! This is my life. I can’t have anybody messing with my life. I just want to be Gerry Cooney, doing what I want to do. I want to be what I am. A fighter.
I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.
I’ve completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I’ve been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!
For the last 14 years or so, I’ve been a fighter for so long I kind of forgot what it’s like to not have this as my biggest form of expression of who I am.
I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.
If you go into ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ and you’re just gonna go in there to get just one fight and win… the premise is to win the whole thing. When I went in, I wanted to win the thing or be cut.
I think there’s a lot of people out there who, if George Foreman had to get beat, I’m the one fighter they would like to see beat him.
It’s like I had two things pulling at me: you want to be a fighter, and you have problems. So I couldn’t be a fighter, and I wasn’t solving any problems.
I didn’t really realize that I could make it into a career until midway through the ‘Ultimate Fighter’ show when I started beating guys who had been training in the sport for a really long time.
We have come a long way from the first season of ‘The Ultimate Fighter.’
I showed I’m an elite fighter.
‘Bhuj’ has a strong ensemble and I play a Sikh fighter pilot in it.
You can’t judge a fighter by their worst performance.
I want to thank Kotelnik for letting me have a shot at the title. I’m so confident I’m going to beat him. He thinks that me moving up a weight, I won’t be as strong, but I’m very strong. I’m a hard-hitting fighter.
My father was a fighter. My grandfather was a fighter. It’s just in my blood.
Whenever I go to any particular event, people are shocked that I’m a fighter. To be a fighter, I have to look a certain way, and to be an actress, I have to look a certain way. I have to change that; I’ve joined acting to do meaningful cinema and to show that there is much more than glamour that actresses can offer.
Having ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ was the thing that did it for us, live fighting on TV. That’s what we had to do, was get a live fight on TV. It couldn’t have worked out better.
I think Kevin Lee is an excellent fighter who fights well on the feet, has evolved in that area, but his strongest weapon is wrestling, not jiu-jitsu.
I have respect for Chisora as a fighter but not as a human. He set a bad example for boxing and all fighters. He came from Great Britain, but he is not a gentleman.
I’ve got world championship potential; I’m out there to be the best fighter I can be.
Any fighter fighting in the UFC would take the opportunity to take a fight against a YouTuber and stand to make several million dollars.
I’m scared of any fighter I’ve ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That’s also where the anxiety comes from.
Errol Spence is a fighter. He wants to hurt you.
There’s some ignorant people in the world, and if I spend time trying to convince people to think like me, I’ll be wasting valuable time I could use to be growing my business, perfecting my craft as a fighter, watching film, studying, or just enjoying time with my family. Or just sleeping.
As a writer, I can’t be a heroic sword fighter like General Dumas, but I can rescue someone who’s been taken out of history by using my writing to bring them back.
As a fighter, you know when you connect with a really good shot because you feel the impact on your fist.
My idea is to have two bases. I keep my family in Rio, and when I have a fight scheduled, I will come to Vegas to train here at Xtreme Couture, which I consider the best place for a MMA fighter to be.
I’m a fighter – I learned this as a child.
I’ve had the hardest upbringing of any fighter in England.
I love ‘Pac-man’, ‘Mortal Kombat’, and ‘Street Fighter’. ‘Ryu’ is my favourite-ever character – I’d love to leapfrog the Hadouken. I never really evolved too far beyond that, but I have played ‘2K17’.
I just have to focus on what I can do and keep making a living and keeping my name up there as the best pound-for-pound fighter.
I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with ‘The Fighter,’ there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.
I’m a calm-headed fighter. I do my job.
You always have your knockers. There’s always something wrong. But I’m happy. I think that I’m improving as a fighter; that’s all I can ask for.
I am not one to run away from challenges, as I am a fighter, and I will come back.
I’ve got big respect for Corey Anderson. He’s a great fighter, he poses a big threat.
But I’m not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I’m just an actor.
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.
I don’t like to give predictions but I am the type of fighter who tries to stop his man every time, and that’s why I’m such a fan favourite. People know I do the business.
In the music business, if you’re not a fighter, you will get walked all over.
That’s why I wrote ‘Fighter’. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.
I’m just a fighter.
It’s easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it – the war fighter and the analyst.
When I say ‘fighter,’ I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.
In the Palestinian camps in the Seventies, I fell in love with a woman fighter – now married with six kids, not mine! – and I seriously considered staying there with her.
Any of my previous fights before the UFC and ‘the Ultimate Fighter’ were all main events and co-main events.
Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he’s been a champion in many different organizations.
Observe, orient, decide, act. It’s fighter pilot terminology. If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other person dies. In Silicon Valley, the OODA loop of your decision-making is effectively what differentiates your ability to succeed.
Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.
As a fighter, you need to constantly improve. So that’s what we’ve been doing: constantly improving striking, grappling, wrestling – there’s always different aspects to improve.
If you are a gladiator, a fighter in this sport, in life you can be the same.
There is more to Shannon Briggs than a fighter.
I’m a true fighter, not an Instagram fighter.
I’m not the best fighter but I’m the craziest fighter.
I’m a warrior at heart. A lot of other people do it for money, or they want stardom and fame because they want to be famous or they just want to be on TV, and they just happen to have the skills to be a good fighter.
The Kelley fight meant that much because it’s always when a fighter from this country goes over to America and proves himself, it’s always make or break in a British fighter’s career.
I can explode from both stances as a fighter. I can get up into my southpaw, give one good jab, sprawl, then get up into my orthodox, sprawl, go into southpaw and jab.
I do not fight for free. But I was born to be a fighter.
When I’m done, I want to be known as the fighter that everybody wishes they could’ve seen live.
When it’s all said and done, Linares is an exceptional fighter.
I told Gamboa he picked the wrong fighter and the wrong city, and I was right. I never felt any danger in the fight.
I’m a distance fighter – if you’ve seen me fight, I like ducking in and out.
I’m a fighter.
A lot of people said I would never make it, and this and that, I’d never be a top 10 fighter, that I’d never fight for a title. Just stuff like that. Achieving all those goals and being the person that I am, this is going against everything everyone said I couldn’t do.
Out of electronics school, my first assignment was to a fighter base in Florida. My roommate, Glen, would become my best friend in Florida and Thailand as we were sent to different air bases in Southeast Asia.
I like being able to do all of my own stunts. I appreciate stunt guys and what they do and, of course, the time and the effort that they put in, but for me, I’m young. You only live once, so to be able to do all your own stunts, train, become a real fighter… I feel like I can hold my own.
