Top 66 Nick Diaz Quotes

You see me. What you see is what you get. You get real martial arts, you get real fighting, you get a real warrior mentality. Some people aren’t mature enough to handle it.

I don’t like to hurt people for fun.

I don’t have to worry about being a good role model.

I’m a pay-per-view without a title.

My first experience of doing martial arts was weird, real traditional, strange smell with incense burning. We did a lot of bowing, it was a lot of path of least resistance and go with the flow… Really good stuff for when you’re at a young age.

I just want to display my skills to the world because I can do it all.

Belts aren’t important. It’s the fights that are important. Important to the fans, important to the show.

I’m scared of any fighter I’ve ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with.

People want to see real skill level, real Jiu Jitsu, real boxing, put together and mixed up. They want to see mixed martial arts. They don’t want to see five minutes of holding. I think there should be points deducted when you do that.

I’d like to be thought of as someone who keeps it real.

I’m not out here trying putting on an act like I’m crazy. In my opinion, everyone else is crazy. They’re the ones who put on an act for you, doing what they’re told in front of the camera.

I don’t recommend anybody becoming a fighter.

I will always tell the truth.

I was always throwing a fit about it, like somebody I was fighting had their hair painted and I would be like, it’s not enough that this guy has to win a fight against me, but he’s gotta do it with his hair being on blast, like big mohawk. Just a wild man.

I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.

I think it’s rude of the UFC to try and lowball me and expect me to negotiate a deal while I’m training for a fight.

In order to love fighting, I have to hate it.

I live a fight life, I can do what I want to win a fight.

I’ll fight anywhere.

I am a fighter. It’s what I am.

I’m not hard to find. I’m on Snapchat and Instagram every day.

I don’t owe nobody nothing.

People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I’ll admit to anxiety, but it has nothing to do with media or being in front of a camera or being around people. It has to do with dealing with the sparring that I’m going to have or the workouts that I’m going to have from day to day.

Stockton is a great fight town because if you drive long enough on some of these roads, you’ll probably see a pretty good street fight.

I don’t have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he’s a great fighter. I think he’s a nice guy just like everybody else, and he’s a great role model. I would love to be that too if I was in that position.

Stylistically, though, I’ve always liked Carlos Condit, because he at least amounted to at least the level of doing what I do. I mean, but I think he stands a little upright.

I had my mom drive me to practice everywhere. I’m really grateful I had her.

I do what I’ve got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can’t put that together and understand that.

I’m not in love with fighting. I never was.

I did aikido when I was four years old.

I’m not no chump.

I’m trying to live life like a normal person.

I like the idea of being able to fight my way out of something.

I enjoy fighting here in Japan under the regular Dream/Pride rules with the ring and the whole rules criteria.

I think for hundreds of years or for a much longer time, people have been fighting, professional athletes have been fighting in a ring. So it’s just the way it should be. There’s no sense in making it a cage.

You know, I’m never really 100-percent in any of those fights, because it’s so hard to have perfect preparation for fighting and cutting weight and making 170 pounds, and being in the best shape for training camp and to make that cut.

I felt like my job is to go out there and put on a good show, amazing fights and give an amazing effort and hope that people can recognize that sort of thing, and maybe they would want to find out more.

I just never try to beat somebody on the scorecards. It’s never happened. It’s not in me, I think.

I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.

I’m ready to fight anybody.

I’m gonna talk my talk, I’m gonna walk my walk.

I don’t like that I’m made out to be this evil person, who needs to be shot down and conquered.

I will tell you right now, I want to fight the No. 1 fighter in the world. I always said that I want to fight the No. 1 fighter.

Once I turned pro, I was like okay, this is not fun and games now.

I just come to fight. Whatever happens out there happens.

They pay me way too much money but not enough as far as I’m concerned.

I do get paid well as an MMA fighter, but this isn’t boxing and I feel like we should get paid like this is boxing.

When someone tells you a fighter’s injured and they tell you to go after an injury, it really throws you off.

If anybody wants to fight me they know where to find me. I’m not a hard guy to find. Come get some.

I have a cage at home, I have a cage at all the gyms I train.

A lot of guys have to worry about what their wives and kids think, I don’t.

That’s a disgusting thought to have to fight my brother. I don’t even appreciate being asked about that.

Everybody wants to do a fight with me, champions at 170, champions at 185.

It’s a really complicated road if you’re an MMA fighter.

I didn’t graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.

I’ve learned from my mistakes in the past, why I thought I’ve lost fights before.

Fighting is not something that I enjoy doing. It’s something that I do that I feel that I have to do.

I have Georges St-Pierre out here telling me ‘you really think I’m afraid of you, man?’ and I’m like you should be, bro. You should be scared out of your mind. I’ll tell you what, I’m scared of him.

I don’t care about the Strikeforce belt.

Martial arts, when I do martial arts, it’s more of a life type of training.

I’ve been watching Frank Shamrock fight since the beginning.

Give me some real chocolate. Real fighters eat real chocolate.

Sometimes I’m like, man, I wish I’d just fall off, so people stop talking about me.

I’ve never backed out of a fight in my life. That’s not what I do.

Have you ever seen me knock somebody out and make a big scene? Hell no.

I’m fighting hard, I’m training hard. I’m still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I’m going and I would really like to give back especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.