Top 55 Tim Kennedy Quotes

I really want to demonstrate I’m not to be overlooked anymore.

There are some parallels between ‘Zombieland’ and ‘Range 15,’ except ‘Zombieland,’ with Woody Harrelson, there’s this pleasurable fun in every scene.

People want to hear what I do with Special Forces, as a ranger, as a sniper. And I’m like ‘What does that have to do with fighting?’ Let’s talk about fighting. They couldn’t be more different; there’s nothing similar about them.

I hit hard, and I’m hard to take down.

I don’t need MMA, but I love fighting. Those are very different things.

You’re always going to get an honest, straightforward response from me. Honest to a fault.

I have no problem putting on a kit, carrying a big sniper rifle, and running a few thousand meters.

MMA in an individual sport, and you’re just pushing yourself to be as dangerous as you can be in 15 minutes.

I’m an eight-year Green Beret, Ranger, sniper.

If we are ever going to rescue our nation from selfish entitlement, political correctness, and collectivism, we must start sending citizen-statesman warriors to fight for us in Washington, and I believe Col. Maness will do just that.

I remember every moment of every gunfight I’ve ever been in.

MMA has a referee, and you’re wearing gloves. I’m in there with another volunteering participant that’s out there to win some prize money.

Everyone knows who I am; everyone respects me as a shooter, as an operator, as a soldier… I’m always truthful, I’m always honest, and I’m always trying to do the right thing.

When 9/11 happened, I was like, ‘I gotta do something.’ I went and talked to the recruiters, and I found out about the Special Forces 18X program. They take qualified people off the street, and they give them a shot at Special Forces. I was like, ‘So I could go try out for Special Forces?’

I’m the guy that once graduated Ranger School – a place that starves you and denies you sleep for over two months – and took a fight six days later in the IFL and won.

My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.

The people that are close to me, the people that I spend most of my time with, they’re all really like-minded people.

I got my hand slapped for talking about fighter pay. That was a big one. I had Dana White yell at me in front of, like, 20 other fighters.

I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It’s always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband.

I was deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq with British Special Forces Units. I have great respect for the British military and the country as a whole, so I don’t have anything negative to say about that.

I’m not hard to find unless you’re ISIS – then, it’s a rough night.

I want to earn a top-contender status in the UFC, so I have to fight the best.

You could waterboard me for days – for years – and I would still be cracking jokes about how bad Rachel Maddow is.

I’m asked daily about how and why I don’t have PTSD. I’m probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.

I’m not perfect – I’m human, and I can make mistakes – but I’m always going to fight clean; I’m always going to go out there and try to put on a good show.

It’s a good thing I have another job because the UFC doesn’t pay very well.

Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class.

I freaking hate liars.

Find something bigger than yourself and pour every ounce of who you are into it. If that’s your family, be the best father on Earth. If you are a cop, firefighter, or a trash man, be the best.

Carlos Condit does the best job of being the counterstriking guy that is very elusive.

I will always have that, ‘I want to be the best fighter on the planet’ thing in me.

I want to thank the military community for their support. I’ll never be able to explain how much you motivated me and how much I always tried to make you proud.

Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I’m just not sure I was born to be in peace time.

I think the most rewarding thing is going over and being deployed and having done meaningful things.

I am a nice guy. I love having a good time. I love cooking. I love hanging out with my friends.

Fighting is a very independent thing, and it’s not a team sport, and it’s not the NFL, you know, because we don’t have to look the same.

I love fighting and will always have the heart of a fighter.

I hate it when anyone in the gym can deadlift more than me.

You should be falling asleep before your head hits the pillow because you worked so hard every moment of the day.

Kettlebells are the best for everything. We do snatches and swings with them for explosiveness and hamstring and lower back strength, and we’ll also throw them into conditioning circuits where I’ll do a burpee holding the kettlebells and transition into a 2-handed snatch.

That’s part of my military character, I think. You back one of us into a corner, and you can only expect one thing: us coming at you like wild, rabid dogs.

I wish that everyone that’s complaining about how things are here would shut their mouth for a little bit, go around the world and see how it is everywhere else.

Michael Bisping, we had a five round battle. I beat him for five rounds and tripled the amount of strikes landed. I landed more take-downs in that fight than had been landed on him in his entire career.

No matter what I do, it’s all about the workouts. When I travel, I make sure I get my workout in first. When I’m in camp for a fight, I don’t travel at all, and I train three times a day. The secret is to just keep working.

When you’re in Ranger School, it sucks. You’re not eating; you’re not sleeping. You’re marching miles – for months at a time. It’s horrible.

What’s the definition of terrorism? It’s to achieve an objective through the use of force and fear. These are just nasty, evil, disgusting human beings who disrespect human life.

I make, like, three or four times more when I don’t fight than when I do fight. And, I’m one of the higher-paid guys in the UFC, which is remarkably tragic and pathetic.

I know I’m not a marquee name, and I’m looked past by most guys.

Watching everybody have such a fantastic time, loving life, loving America – I wish that was the feeling year-round, that it didn’t take the Fourth of July for us to be like, ‘Yeah, America is awesome.’

I think obstacle courses in general are a blast, and I love the Green Beret one; I’ve done it – I don’t know – 20, 30, 40 times. I’m always trying to break my time from the last one or use a new technique to get through a certain obstacle.

I’m competitive when I fight, but I don’t get emotionally involved.

I’m against torture. I’m also against terrorism.

If you’ve been hit, if you’ve been put down, if you’ve lost, that next time you come out, you have to make a testament: you have to make a demonstration, a showing, that it’s not going to happen again.

I’m the guy that is always in shape.

If Katie Couric or Anderson Cooper asked me to come on to their shows and give them content every single day, I would do it because that gives me access to a huge population of people that I can hopefully, in some way, plant seeds in fertile soil, and those seeds would grow into oak trees of freedom.