Top 66 Eddie Alvarez Quotes

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Every once in awhile, we all get a bad hand dealt to us.

I’ll beat a bunch of good guys, and then I’ll get a ton of fans come up to me and go, ‘Do you think you can beat Conor McGregor?’ And I’m like, ‘Oh my God. You guys are disillusioned.’ They think because this man’s popular he’s good.

I think sports is a quest to find out what really is – not what perceptions are.

I beat Gilbert Melendez, and he got two shots at the title.

I like to keep a high pace, violent fight. I don’t like to waste time, and I don’t like to go to the judges. I feel like I’ve fought long enough where I can adapt to just about any situation.

In this sport, the good thing about the UFC and MMA in general is a lot of it’s based on perception.

Fighting, for me, is not a career – it’s an opportunity. I’m going to take full advantage of it and do it as long as I can. As long as my body lets me and I’m healthy enough to do it naturally, I’ll do it.

The truth is, a large majority of the market, I’d guess 80 percent, doesn’t know anything more than what they are sold.

The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It’s about what’s inside – what really is inside.

The most comical thing for me, even when I watch movies, is the guy who’s so crazy confident about himself, with the mink jacket – to me, that is so funny. I wish I could be like that. As a fighter, I wish I could do that, so I could make people laugh. But I can’t; it’s not my style.

I’ve said it from the very beginning: Fighting the best guys in the world doesn’t pay as good as the circus. I want to join the circus. I’m trying to get that circus money.

I’m a little unconventional; I do things a little differently.

The fans, man, the fans have a little different way of thinking. They really applaud the spirit of fighters, and that put a huge influence on the type of energy I fought with, rather than if I won or lost. America’s a real win-or-lose culture, where with the Japanese, fighting with spirit is enough.

My biggest fear as a fighter is to be knocked out in front of millions of people. But after it actually happened, there’s this calmness about you that says everything is OK.

The goal never changes. It’s about beating the guy in front of you.

I’m looking to grab the UFC and pull them back in the direction of Philadelphia.

I never take a round off or a run off or a push-up off; that’s just not in me.

People say I’m good at standup. I don’t even think I’m that great at standup. I just hit hard. I don’t think I’m super technical or anything like that. I got a couple knockouts. I think I just hit hard more than anything.

I really didn’t want to enter the UFC in a fight that nobody really cared about or where people thought I was just going to whoop some guy.

When I fought Nick Thompson, I wasn’t experienced enough. That was the first person that put me in a real fight. Before Nick, nobody had put me in a fight where I had to struggle.

I think bullying in general is for cowards.

I enjoy fights the most once them nerves go away and you settle into the fight. That’s when you can have your fun and be creative and just kind of be yourself.

If I can put the right guy with the right mouthpiece in front of the right opponents, we can build a champion, but he doesn’t really have to beat the best guys; we just have to give him the right matchups.

When I say ‘fighter,’ I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.

I’ve experienced success, I’ve experienced failure, I’ve been a world champion, I’ve fought all over the world; I think I’ve experienced enough that I won’t get in front of a million people and get gunshy.

It’s a fist fight – the idea is to go out there and impose my will.

I’ve been fighting the best guys, so I would like a gimme fight.

I want to fight Gilbert Melendez.

I won my first 10 fights by knockout. The money was getting larger at the same time.

Money is always a motivating factor, but money has never been my driving force. In my first fight, I paid the promoter in order for me to fight. I was in the hole 300 bucks for that. Money has always been a byproduct of me doing something I love.

I’m old school, man. I think, if you want to be the best, then beat the best guys.

The business aspect of this sport is a contradiction to what it’s really about, and that’s knowing something for what it is and not just what it looks like.

I know what I can do at 155.

I think when it comes to re-signing with an organisation, there’s no real compromise if you’re trying to move on.

You win a world title, you beat the best guys in the world, and a lot of these fans are kind of misconstrued about who are the best fighters in the world.

Where in normal neighborhoods, they would play stick ball and hockey and baseball, we used to slap box and bring boxing gloves down the street and box each other.

As far as Nurmagomedov, I just don’t get how you become the No. 1 contender without actually fighting guys who are ranked in the top 10. It kind of baffles me.

Fighting in general, but especially when I was younger, was tough to deal with because there are so many external things going on that want to control you that most people have no clue about.

Gray Maynard? Kenny Florian? All these guys, they’re UFC fighters, that’s all. They’re pushed by the UFC, but when they leave the UFC, they’re forgotten. When’s the last time you heard Josh Neer’s name? You haven’t. When’s the last time you heard about Roger Hurerta? You haven’t. They’re no ones anymore.

You don’t want to be in a fight of the year. It takes years off your life. But, it’s why fans tune in; it’s why people gravitate toward your fights. It’s why people want to watch you fight. It’s important to get into them, but it’s important to try not to get into too many of them.

If your worst fear can come true, and everything can still be OK, then there’s really not much to fear at all.

I’m my own biggest critic, so no matter what was being said in the media or being said by fans, I feel the worst when I disappoint myself.

I want the best guys the promotion has to offer, put them in front of me, and I’ll beat them.

I want to fight only dangerous guys. Whenever I’ve done that in my career, I’ve stepped up and risen to the challenge.

I think it’s important to say that I am genuinely thankful for the time at Bellator.

I started this fight career with one objective. When I step inside a ring or an octagon, it is to beat the guy in front of me.

I will fight whoever the UFC wants me to fight.

Going in there just to win and put on a boring fight, I don’t want to be related to anything like that.

I have a very good ground game and very good wrestling. People just underestimate it. That’s it. I want to keep it like that.

Typically, I would say that I’m not defined by one loss and I’m not defined by one win. But I’d be lying if I told you I didn’t harp on the loss at Madison Square Garden.

I never prepare according to how I feel for a fight. I always prepare to be a better me.

I will do whatever the UFC tells me to do, but there’s not a doubt in my mind that I can be champion.

I was never the most technical; I was never the best at one aspect at this sport, but what I was always good as was negating people’s strengths and putting them in terrible situations where they’re uncomfortable.

I don’t like going to 155; I do it because everyone else does.

Although I’m shorter, all of my weight I carry in my back and my butt. That’s where most of my weight is.

I rarely think that when a guy loses a fight, it’s a weight issue. You can either fight, or you can’t.

We got four-ounce gloves here. It’s not hard to knock someone out.

I don’t need to be told what I am or what I should do or if I beat this guy it means I’m good or if I lose to that guy it means I’m bad. I’m at peace with myself, and I know what I do every day in my training will speak for itself, and success will be a byproduct.

I don’t have a nickname. But, hey, they can call me what they want – The Silent Assassin, The Underground King. In Japan, they call me American Knuckle Star. Call me what you want.

When I joined UFC, I said I want to be involved in fights where millions of fans are watching, biting their fingernails, thinking, ‘What the heck is going to go on here?’

These kinds of fights, these big fights that get everyone talking and interested, these are the fights I want.

There’s a lot of guys in the UFC who are good at one thing, and they get matched up stylistically well.

I want to prove the naysayers wrong. They’re everywhere. And to be honest with you, they’re all I see, and they’re what motivates me.

I’ve knocked a ton of guys out. I know the power I have and the advantages I have against the best in the world.

I’ve done it a couple times where I’ve had fight of the year. It’s not what you aspire to.