Top 75 Tyron Woodley Quotes

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Two men can talk on the phone and maybe not agree on ev

Two men can talk on the phone and maybe not agree on everything but at least respect each other.
Tyron Woodley
I’ve physically seen profiling. I’ve seen me walking up the street with my friends, and the police officers get out of their car and bust the hell out of my friends. And they can’t do anything about it, and the cop gets back in his car and drives off.
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I fight with a game plan, but sometimes you have an audible.
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Why wouldn’t the police officers be on edge? Why wouldn’t they be alert? And why wouldn’t people in the community trust police officers? Because they are consistently harassing them, and they have experience with police officers doing awful things.
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For me, I’m going to try to do the same thing to you no matter if I like you, no matter if I hate you, no matter if it pops up. You’re not going to be able to say one thing, and now I really want to kick you.
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The true game of mixed martial arts is putting your wrestling in there, putting your striking in there, but also being deceiving – hiding behind your punches if you’re wrestling and hiding behind your wrestling if you’re punching. It’s just a matter of blending it all together.
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Wrestling is second nature: I’ve been doing it for so long, so if it looks like someone’s leg is available, it made sense for my first three fights that I would shoot for legs.
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A lot of people don’t understand my reasoning behind wanting to fight big fights and big names. Knocking off these big names in fights really solidifies me as the best welterweight that’s ever done it.
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For me, it’s just being wiser, finding my opportunities, and really fighting a smart fight.
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When someone’s portraying something they’re not to get underneath my skin, I’m just going to funnel that into a great strategy, and I’m going to try to get him out of there quick.
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I think that – this is my personal opinion – but sometimes African American athletes are considered overly cocky.
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If a guy isn’t in a position to fight for a world title, or if he’s not in a place where I can intercept his road to the title, don’t offer him to me. I’m not in this to just fight guys for the sake of fighting. I’m not in this to make friends with the people who work in the organization.
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The only person I’d be interested in boxing would have to be one of the best of the best. It would have to be, like, Andre Ward.
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I’m a huge fan of the Diaz boys. I’m a huge fan of what they’ve done for our sport. I feel like it’s not about the rankings anymore. Sometimes the rankings are a little shaky.
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One of the things I like most about Roufusport is, really, the culture. A lot of times, you’re training in fight camps and running and hitting mitts and sparring. Those things get old kind of quick. I like the fact that they allow fun into the room.
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I’m just going to go out there, pop on my leather gloves, and constantly make connections outside the Octagon, and that will make me bigger in the Octagon.
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My end goal is not to break the record for cashing in the most. I want to be treated fair and what I feel is fair, but that’s not my sole purpose; that’s not my purpose.
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My real fear with fighting is just not letting it go out there and hang out. I don’t fear other guys. I’m just scared I’m not going to go out there and give everything I have. Like I’m only going to give a fraction of the things we trained and worked on.
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I think Nick Diaz is a great fighter.
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Fighting is the only sport where fans don’t understand this is our living.
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I hate seeing it; I hate watching it. More importantly, I hate people that don’t understand the environment – how small Ferguson is, how it’s really a sense of community, and, you know, it’s a good place. We shouldn’t have been looting and rioting, tearing up our own city.
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It’s always something; it’s never going to be something that’s pleasing. People will always find something to say, and once you become comfortable with that, you can walk away and smile.
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I used to be in a street fight at least twice a week, so locking me in a cage with somebody, with a set of rules and a referee to jump in if something get ugly, and a time limit, like, it don’t scare me.
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There’s a lot of guys in my weight class that are talking – they’re chirping. Everybody wants the title. Everybody wants to fight me; everybody thinks they can beat me. People are talking because they think I can’t fight.
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I’m a person who believes that if a team that’s producing a champion and producing contenders in that same division, then the coaches should be proud of that and pat themselves on the back because they’re really creating a dynasty, so that’s the way I take it.
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I don’t want to be the dude that you just think about with a crazy suit, talking crap, fighting in these super fights and driving a Rolls-Royce.
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How do I have to continue to excessively prove myself and always be the underdog? I don’t get the respect I deserve, and that leads me to believe that maybe it is a colour issue.
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When you fighting in New York, I feel like it would be disrespectful if I didn’t walk out with some legendary East Coast hip-hop.
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Nobody criticizes The Rock. Nobody criticizes Randy Couture when he goes over and did ‘Expendables 3’ or anybody who’s a crossover.
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When things get you in the corner, and it feels like you can’t go on, you can fight back. You’re never out of the fight.
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When you’re working on a Marvel movie, their legal department do not play.
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There's some ignorant people in the world, and if I spe

There’s some ignorant people in the world, and if I spend time trying to convince people to think like me, I’ll be wasting valuable time I could use to be growing my business, perfecting my craft as a fighter, watching film, studying, or just enjoying time with my family. Or just sleeping.
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If you bring in testosterone outside your body, it probably stops producing it because it thinks you’re going to get it from the outside.
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USADA tested me, and I came back positive for hard work and beast-like characteristics.
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I don’t feel an obligation to go by the rankings – we all know how those rankings are produced anyway. I want to go out there and fight the money fight.
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I’m a successful individual and maneuvering in a culture where there are some racists. I still find a way to get to the top, whether I go around or weave through.
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The thing I hate about mixed martial arts is that it’s no longer a sport. It’s a big-money business, and it’s an entertainment industry.
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I ain’t Nate Diaz. Nate Diaz is not a welterweight. He did not do well at welterweight because he was undersized, and these dudes are real gorillas in this weight class.
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Goal number one is to be the welterweight champion of the world, and I’m away from my family way too often. This is a sport where we can make cash now.
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There’s something about somebody who does something special in the UFC that they’re allotted certain freedoms and wiggle room around the rules. I’m just not in that category. So if I want to fight Georges St-Pierre or Nick Diaz or Nate Diaz, then it’s all the hooplah and all the talk about it.
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Amanda Nunes – I’ve been telling people that forever – she could compete with a lot of the male bantamweights in American Top Team.
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I’ve really valued each area of MMA.
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Certain athletes show themselves as marketable, and the UFC gets behind them; they help push them. I’m a husband, a father of four, a gym owner, an actor, an analyst, a stuntman, a Christian – every avenue you can take it, I have those layers.
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I’m actually one of the sharper tools in the box that haven’t been in the streets like that, but I have family members, close loved ones, that that’s all they know.
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When you’re watching people in non-title fights making four times the amount of money that a champion makes, it takes away the flavor of being a champion.
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I guess you could say I fell into it. The main goal was to be successful and to make my family proud. Back then, MMA was just getting started, and there didn’t seem to be a ton of rules. It seemed pretty brutal, and I was still pretty focused on wrestling. But I decided to give it a shot.
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My nickname, T-Wood, came from football because I was so small, but I used knock people’s helmets off. All I wanted to do was hit. I didn’t care about interceptions or touchdowns.
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Nick Diaz is in the top five welterweights of all time in my eyes. Georges St-Pierre is the number one welterweight in my eyes.
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When I was in college, I was a landscaper. Other than that, coaching has been my life and my job. A lot of people like coaching college, but I would never do it again. There are too many NCAA bylaws, rules and politics.
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You look at the top five right now and see guys like Kelvin Gastelum, who I’ve beaten, Carlos Condit, who I’ve beaten, Robbie Lawler, who I’ve beaten. How are those guys more notable than I am, and I’m the champion of the world?
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I owe my family first, but I also have others around me that I have to perform for.
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I put myself in a position where I made wrestling an option for me. I don’t have to wrestle. I don’t have to take another shot for the rest of my life if I don’t want to. I have good enough hands, good enough boxing, good enough timing to strike with anybody in our division.
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The second I bring up race in the sport, I’m immediately race-baiting. But I can point out clear facts, where no other champion has been treated like me.
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