Top 66 Rashad Evans Quotes

The only way I’m going out is unconscious. I’m not a quitter.

It’s like when your parents tell you what to do, but it’s not until you go through it yourself that you see why they said what they said. Sometimes you just have to go through things in life to become a better person.

Eric Knuutila had a big impact on my wrestling career.

I’ve trained with real, world-class wrestlers.

Eric Knuutila was one of those coaches who I could tell who cared, who went the extra mile, who made sure that it wasn’t just about getting me on the mat and wrestling.

There’s a lot of reasons I didn’t perform the way I could have in college. Going to college, I was a new parent, I lived in another state. I just wasn’t mentally into it when I was in college.

When I go in and fight, I’m not the same guy who is sitting in front of you, who is meeting the fans or anything like that. It’s like a split personality.

It was really difficult being away from MMA because it’s been a way of life for me for 13 years. But being on the outside and coaching helps you sharpen your skills because you have to explain what you do, why things work and why other things don’t.

Ring rust is real. I’ve experienced it myself.

I feel like I can beat Jon Jones. I see some things in his game that I can capitalize on.

I enjoy the whole aspect of training with different people.

Sometimes it doesn’t always say Niagara Falls there, but you better believe, I represent Niagara Falls every time I step in the octagon.

Yeah, I like going away for camp. It brings out the savagery.

I remember the first time I fought somebody with a name and that was Tito Ortiz. I didn’t start fighting until like the second round because I was like, ‘Oh my God, that’s Tito Ortiz. That’s Tito Ortiz from TV. Look how big his head is, damn.’

I went to Michigan State because a coach I was being recruited by told me if I go to Michigan State, I wouldn’t start. I didn’t like the boundaries he put on me. He was probably trying to look out for my best interests, but at the time I took it kind of personal. Not only did I start, but I made captain.

For the last 14 years or so, I’ve been a fighter for so long I kind of forgot what it’s like to not have this as my biggest form of expression of who I am.

I really worked hard to get myself in shape, just from a physical standpoint when you’re able to bring your body down and have the discipline to get into shape the way I was, it’s really a spiritual journey as well.

I wouldn’t have won anything without Bill Dixon.

I will always find something to challenge myself. I will go up to heavyweight or down to middleweight.

Coming into community college, I wasn’t sure of where I wanted to go in my future.

Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.

Only thing I care about, the only thing I think about is the fight in front of me.

Of course I expect to be booed. People always have to find the bad guy, and for some reason, the look on my face or something, people just want to boo me. That’s fine.

If you’re not chasing gold, you’re not really in a place where you should be competing.

You’ve got so many guys coming up and putting in work, and everybody wants to be in my position, so I gotta be paranoid and think that if I’m not producing, if I’m not going out there and winning fights and winning impressively, I’m gonna be replaced.

I’ve always felt that I had to go out and prove myself in every fight.

It’s sad because I worked so hard to be able to provide for my kids and give them a better life than I ever had for myself but I can’t give them the one thing which they really need more than anything, and that’s me.

I didn’t grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me that made me very angry.

I’m one of those athletes, I compete better for coaches that I have a lot of love and respect for.

When you violate a pact, there’s no way I can ever work with you again.

I grew up so poor and now I have an opportunity to provide for my family in a way that I never imagined. I take that in consideration and try to exploit every single opportunity because when it’s over it’s over, there are no redos.

For me I think the pressure Chael Sonnen brings is hard to match with his offense, takedowns, ground and pound, hand in the face and dropping elbows and shots. It kind of wears down a fighter.

At one point in my life, I felt as if fighting was everything. It was everything. I put life second.

I’m the guy that everybody wants to hate.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that’s what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

The UFC is not a place for the feint of heart.

I’ve had some real hard setbacks in this sport and I learned to realize that you can’t really build who you are on what people say. That’s ultimately building your foundation in sand.

I pretty much focus on all the main styles out there, karate, wrestling, boxing, jiujitsu, just pretty much anything within MMA.

I love Chuck Liddell. Chuck Liddell is a good friend of mine, actually.

I like to have a lot of time to be able to format what I want to do, and how I’m going to do my training camp. When you’re doing a camp on short notice, it makes everything else suffer.

If you fight a hungry fighter and you look into their eyes and you’re not as hungry as they are, that’s when you get eaten up.

Keith Jardine pushes me the hardest because we’re in the same weight class and we get competitive with each other, we make sure we’re in shape and ready to compete.

I like getting booed.

You can have the best college wrestling in the world, but you can have terrible MMA wrestling.

True wealth is not measured by how much money you’ve got in the bank or how many toys you’ve got. Some of the happiest people in the world don’t have a crying quarter, but they’ve got all the things that mean a lot to them.

Getting the title shot was huge.

Whoever I have to face has to feel the wrath.

MMA embodies a lot of disciplines of sports with footwork and with football, especially with the punching technique you get the hand and eye coordination.

MMA was love at fight sight. I felt like I was born to do it.

I never want to get content. I never want to think that I’m at a certain spot and I’m gonna stay there, because this organization’s hard to stay in, and this is the wrong place to get complacent in.

Sometimes when you open your mouth you show what you’re afraid of more than anything.

I try to stay away from high sodium and high sugar.

When people are overlooking somebody like Phil Davis, it’s a dangerous thing.

I was a rowdy boy growing up.

I was just so rambunctious as a little kid. It started because I hung out with my older brothers and their friends. I always had to fight to prove I was tough.

When I’m training for a fight, I’m not the same person that I normally am when I’m at home. I’m always thinking about fighting. I’m doing it day in and day out. Pretty soon, my personality starts to change. My temper’s a little bit shorter, I don’t have a lot of patience for a lot of things.

The hardest thing in the world is to watch someone you love really not be able to get themselves together and really struggle on a level so bad when it seems and it appears that they have it all.

I won’t fight Thiago Silva. I won’t fight Cezar ‘Mutante’ Ferreira. I won’t fight anybody who I train with.

Wrestling is one of the earliest and oldest martial arts there is.

Working at the hospital, there was a lot of starchy food. I was in good with the lunch lady, so she would hook me up with all kinds of macaroni and cheese and potatoes and that kind of food. I would eat it all night to the part where I hated food. I got pretty big.

I want to train with whoever is the best.

Jon has always been able to start off at a certain pace but then pick it up throughout the fight and then, at the end of the fight, his opponents are like, ‘Damn, this guy is at another level.’ I think that’s what makes Jon Jones, Jon Jones.

Having a chance to fight for a title is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and I consider myself to be very lucky that I got two chances.

I’m not really too worried about the mystique of Jon Jones. Because I know Jon Jones’ core. I remember when Jon Jones used to come up to me and say, ‘Hey man, what’s it like when everybody wants to take pictures with you?’ So I know Jon Jones.

All the losses that I had, I think they were important, just because it helped me grow as a fighter, helped me grow as a person.

Chicago is like a New York City. It’s one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.