Top 60 Chuck Liddell Quotes

When I’m training for a fight, I work out two or three times a day for five days a week.

Supplements have always been a really big part of my training regimen.

I’ve got a puncher’s chance against anybody.

I’ll take what I can get when I go high with a hook, but the side of the head makes a big target, especially if his hands are down.

You have to learn your own details before you can teach them.

I come from a wrestling background but don’t really use it in most of my fights.

I never expected it, but I’ve gotten paid a lot to do what I love. There are no complaints.

I’m probably not going to be popular with the fighters with this one, but my biggest problem is guys playing it safe. I understand it from a coach’s standpoint and a manager’s standpoint. I understand why you’d want to play it safe and want to win the fight, win every fight. I get it.

I have absolutely no dancing background. I think I took one swing class when I was in college, with a friend of mine. I think I went twice.

If I weren’t fighting, I’d be in the business world.

You can actually find a lot of gyms that do teach mixed martial arts. But it’s just like with any martial art – you’ve got to look at the coaches, go watch some classes, see how people treat each other and how the coaches treat the students.

I don’t ever go into a fight wanting to hurt someone. I just want to show them that I am better than them, and if they get hurt, it’s part of the sport.

I was the guy that would cram for everything, so I guess I was a bit of a slacker. I was a procrastinator. I spent a lot of all-nighters getting ready for tests.

I don’t change my style for anybody.

Aldo needed to feel McGregor out. Coming right at him ran into McGregor’s game. I thought he’d start by taking him down and confuse him a little. Maybe he had all that stuff planned, but one combo, and Aldo got caught. That happens, especially with a guy as talented and precise and full of power as Conor.

I hate hearing in a UFC corner, ‘You won the first four rounds; just stay away from him this round.’

Totally different challenges, but being a dad and fighting both wear you out.

I think the reasons I retired stay the same. I don’t want to change my style. I can’t take a punch like I used to for whatever reason. I’ve heard all sorts of theories as to why that would happen, but I can’t do it.

I’m competitive at everything.

You can’t pick and choose who’s going to win or who’s gonna mess up.

I like Glover Teixeira; he’s a former training partner.

As far as losing fights, that’s part of the sport.

People got to understand, the fighters at the top are the fighters that are supposed to get paid because they’re the guys that are bringing people in, bringing eyes to the TV, getting pay-per-views buys, and putting people in the seats. I mean, that’s what it comes down to.

I grew up while I was in college. I learned how to take care of myself. I learned how to prioritize things. I learned how to get things done.

I’ve been on a lot of shows that I like, doing guest appearances and little things. I’m just trying to have fun with being retired.

My style of fighting is to go down and trying to finish the guy and trying to end fights, not laying up because I’m winning the fight, just keep going after it.

I basically follow a modified Zone Diet. I have my food prepared weekly and eat 6 times a day.

A lot of people are blowing Shogun’s fight with Mark Coleman out of proportion. He was coming off an injury, and he gassed early on in his first fight back.

I’ve got a family, and I get to enjoy my family, and I get to do different things, trying the movie thing a little bit.

There’s nobody in the world I wouldn’t fight.

I thought I could beat anyone in the world.

My first contract I was offered by the UFC, or my second contract, it was 1-and-1, 2-and-2, 3-and-3. That’s $12,000 for the year. Don’t complain to me about fighter pay. It was $12,000 for a year, and it was exclusive.

I eat a balanced diet.

Everyone says I drive like my grandfather, but that’s not always a good thing because he didn’t always watch the road because he’d talk to you and look at you. He was a deputy sheriff, a cop, for a long time. So he was always looking around, checking out other things, other than what’s directly in front of him.

Jon Jones is a great fighter.

Mixed martial arts is great, and it’s here to stay.

I’m one of those guys: I’m out there trying to punch you out and to hurt you, but as soon as I’m done, hopefully there’s nothing wrong with you; I’m hoping that you’re okay.

I started doing martial arts since I was 12, and then I went into wrestling in college. After I met John Hackleman, I started getting really serious about it, and after a few amateur fights, I got an invite to the UFC and have been in love with it ever since.

I have had people that I was doing some promotion stuff with go, ‘You know, we had an idea. We should have, like, a legends fight.’ It’s always that. That conversation always comes up when we’re talking about doing some promotion for a company or helping them promote their league.

I’ve never found that getting physical is ever the best response in a bar. You just have to make sure you keep your distance, and if it gets to a point where it gets aggressive, then the best thing to do is go get a bouncer and get the situation resolved intelligently.

It’s hard for me to fake smile. I personally think I look stupid fake smiling.

I have one way of fighting: I’m going to come after you, put hands on you, and knock you out.

The worst thing is losing because you got tired, because you didn’t work hard enough in training. Ugh, that’s the worst.

The most excited you’ll ever see me is after knocking a guy out.

Everybody doesn’t want to hurt to lower guys from getting paid, but it comes down to, it’s a performance-based business. You get good, you win, then you get paid.

I do some weightlifting, a lot of different weight stuff, strength and conditioning stuff, a little bit of everything.

Someone said Anderson Silva and GSP would be a $12 million fight. I told people that for $12 million, I’d fight them both right now. At the same time. People took that as ‘He’s going to fight again.’ It was a joke. But if you came up with $12 million, yeah, of course I will fight again.

It’s hard for an athlete to quit what he’s done his whole life.

I play fantasy football every year.

I try to stay in shape and am always consistently working out.

I drove motorcycles through college. I didn’t have the money to buy a car.

With the fights I have lost, I always want another shot and think that I can beat them.

I like aggressive fighters who will come after me.

‘Dancing with the Stars’ was hard work. It was interesting and fun, too, but it was hard work.

Every time I win, I prove something: I’m the best guy in the world at what I do.

When it comes to damage, boxing will cause more damage than MMA ever will.

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.

It’s a very complex sport, so judging is going to be very complex, too. And not everyone is going to agree all the time on who wins a fight.

I’d like to have all of my losses back. But it’s too late for that.

I don’t think the itch to fight has ever left me, ever. I mean, I got paid to do what I love for a living, and I got paid very well to do it. So that’s going to always be there. That’s always going to be like, ‘Man, I wouldn’t mind getting out there again.’