Top 55 Carlos Condit Quotes

I know what I can do. When I was coming up, I never knew what I couldn’t do.

It’s something I advise young fighters: Get it while the getting’s good. Take care of yourself financially. Be smart and save your money and protect your damn head, dude. Try to take as little damage as possible, especially training.

Georges is very good at what he does. He’s got great wrestling. He’s got some very, very quick, effective strikes.

I think I pose some problems for Georges that he maybe hasn’t seen in the past.

I’ve always been a big fan of Georges. I’ve admired his style and kind of the way he carries himself, and I’m honored to get in there and challenge him for the belt and step in the cage with him.

If you are competing at a high level, you have to accept that there are going to be ups and downs, because that is part of this business.

In high school we’d grapple on my friend’s trampoline for hours. Sometimes we’d have a party at a house. We’d take challenge matches and throw down with different people. By we, I mean me. My friends usually just watched until the other guy’s friends jumped in.

I did the best that I could in preparing for Georges, knowing what I knew. Some things worked, and some things didn’t.

I love MMA. I will be involved in some capacity, or in various capacities within the sport, after my fighting career is over.

I try to inflict as much damage as possible, at all costs.

I’m dangerous and I can finish from a lot of different positions.

I love kids and animals. I’m a pretty gentle guy.

On a regular day, something is hurting. It varies more or less. Seems like I heal pretty quickly and get over stuff, or I’m just used to dealing with stuff.

I want to become undisputed UFC welterweight champion. I’ve been so close a couple of times, but I don’t want to leave the sport always a bridesmaid and never a bride. I want to get that belt around my waist.

I like to keep things exciting. Every minute of the fight, I’m trying to finish my opponent.

I’ve had a long career with a lot of fights, and I’ve taken a lot of punishment.

I’m well-rounded.

My life is just like anybody else, there’s ups and downs, but I always have to put it in perspective.

I don’t think I need the rematch. I won the fight; I think I’d win a rematch. But the thing about it is, I want to be in big fights, fights where there’s a lot of buzz, a lot of people wanting to see the fight, and a rematch with Nick Diaz fits the bill.

The high-profile fights are what matter to me because I have a family to take care of. That’s how I put food on the table. That’s my job.

The more dangerous my opponent is, the better I fight.

I think some guys are able to take more damage, some guys are more resilient than others.

I’ve loved being involved in the sport at the time that I have, and I’ve gotten to do what I love for a living for a long period of time.

I wasn’t going to be able to re-grow my ACL back overnight. I was where I was with this and I just had to accept it. I had to stay focused on getting back. Honestly, I kind of felt in a weird way lucky because it was 12 years into my career that this happened.

I’m just an average, normal guy.

Even when I a kid, a lot of my wrestling practices were agility. My best seasons were the seasons when we would spend 45 minutes or an hour each practice doing agility drills, making you a better athlete. And then you can plug those skills into whatever athletic endeavor you end up pursuing.

I think I wanted to fight, I’ll probably want to fight until the day I’m dead.

By the time I got the notoriety to get bigger sponsors, the sponsorship tax had already taken effect, but I still had some pretty lucrative sponsors.

I’ve had the interim belt before and that little interim specification bothers me.

I knew that in fighting, sometimes you get your butt kicked and sometimes, you do the butt-kicking. It was always a matter of trying to learn and trying to get better.

I want to be that No. 1 guy in the WEC and UFC.

I’m a hell of a lucky guy.

The pressure of kind of being one of the top guys for almost a decade, it’s been awesome.

In the cage, you can’t say, ‘Oh wait, that’s off limits.’ There’s no timeouts, there’s no substitutions and there’s no saying my knee is off limits. This is a full contact sport.

Just because a musician writes a great album doesn’t mean they don’t want to continue writing great music.

You know that when you fight a guy like Georges, there are going to be a lot of demands on your time and you just have to be able to find a way to deal with it. The most important thing is, I can’t let my obligations to promote the fight interfere with my obligation to get ready to fight.

Fights like that, when I have been in those really gritty wars, that’s what I live for. I love that stuff.

I am gradually building my career fighting tougher and tougher opponents.

It’s hard to get a tattoo and give it the time that it needs to heal in between trying to get ready for fights and train. I would probably have more if I wasn’t having to roll around and train all the time.

I feel like I just have the ability to threaten from any position, whether we’re standing or the fight is on the ground.

Whether I’m in camp or out of camp, I am 100 percent dedicated to my profession.

I want to avenge my losses. I want to avenge as many losses as I can.

I’m just a regular guy, and I think sometimes the persona of an MMA fighter are these superstars who are larger-than life-characters. I’m just me and I only try to be me, a normal guy who is interested in a lot of things and happens to have a talent for fighting in a cage.

With Georges, you’ve got to get in there and do what you have to do to win. I don’t care how you win. That’s from a fighter’s perspective. You’ve got to get in there and win the fight.

I’ve been eight weeks into a fight camp, two weeks out from a fight, having paid coaches, booked plane tickets, and invested quite a bit of money in my camp, only to not be able to fight because my opponent got hurt. Boom. I’m out that money. It sucks.

My wife is wonderful.

I think in training is where a lot of the injuries occur, or at least start.

Being the champion is cool, but the payday is really what I’m interested in.

I’ve beaten a lot of guys where I’ve been the underdog throughout my career. And, I’ve made a career out of and I’ve taken a lot of pleasure in proving doubters wrong. And, you do that enough times and you start to believe in your abilities.

There are players associations in all the other major sports. If the UFC is going to continue to grow and be legitimate, we have to get together. The fighters have to get together and have some leverage.

This fight is something I’ve been working towards for 10, 12 or 15 years, since I first started competing, not even competing, just training in Mixed Martial Arts. This is a dream of mine, and to fight Georges St-Pierre in his hometown for the undisputed belt, it’s surreal and an opportunity of a lifetime for me.

Magny is a tough test. Magny is well-rounded, has great endurance. He’s got great boxing and great reach, but he doesn’t have great angles. I have better movement than him and I feel that’s definitely an advantage.

I love what I do.

Georges kind of cleaned out the division of all the contenders. But while he was doing that, there were some other guys that were coming to take their place.

People’s perception sometimes ends up being the reality.