Fighter Quotes - Page 9

• Fighters are raised into MMA. It's more about what's internal, not what's God given. When you have a great fighter like Rickson Gracie or Fedor Emelianenko-they're greater than the others because they have an internal spiritual being that separates them from the rest in their craft. They have the warrior spirit.

  Troy Polamalu

  Spiritual, Warrior, Mma

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I've been in the sport of boxing for a long time, but I haven't been able to bring my 'A-game' totally out. I've beaten fighters with my 'C-Game' and with my 'D-Game,' but I haven't been able to beat anybody with my 'A-Game.'

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Sports, Games, Long

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• If you're a fighter, you recognize a fighter.

  Danai Gurira

  Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• Fourteen weeks before the Mendes fight I tore 80 per cent of my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament]. That is the main ligament for stability. Every day in that training camp when I was working my way back, I was saying "real champions fight through any adversity". That is why I am a real champion and he is not. Look at my eye [he had seven stitches put in an old wound after an injury in training the night before we met]. Fighters fight on. Aldo got scared, he went running and I worry he will run again.

  Conor McGregor

  Running, Real, Eye

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.

  Richard Pryor

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• I tell ya, it's tough to save a buck. Right now I'm supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Mother, Two, Wife

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.55, Zondervan

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• I've never walked off stage and said, I shouldn't have done that. Because when you do what I do, you're like a fighter. You throw the right hand and say, That's what got me to this dance. You can't have doubt. If you have doubt, there's no show.

  Don Rickles

  Hands, Doubt, Done

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• If you go to any fight, whether MMA or boxing, there's a whole musical soundscape to these events. There's pre-event pump up/psych-up music, there's fighter introductions, there's between rounds, so my musical needs are really diverse.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Fighting, Psych, Mma

  Source: collider.com

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• Even before I was a fighter, I was a daddy's girl.

  Ronda Rousey

  Girl, Daddy

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• Lubo Penev is a fighter, he never gives up and remains cool during tough moments. I remember when he was sick with cancer, but fought and returned to football. Most people would have given up and prayed to God for mercy. 
  (on former teammate Luboslav Penev)

  Hristo Stoichkov

  Football, Giving Up, Cancer

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• I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.

  Dov Davidoff

  Levels, Physicist

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• I knew I loved it because I could take the failures. I was like a professional fighter - they're beat 20 times in a row and they just want that one win.

  Pat Cooper

  Winning, Want, Beats

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• Sometimes, I'd take shots without aiming, just to see what happened. I'd rush into crowds - bang! bang! ... It must be close to what a fighter feels after jabbing and circling and getting hit, when suddenly there's an opening, and bang! Right on the button. It's a fantastic feeling.

  William Klein

  Feelings, Buttons, Bangs

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• I'll bring a flower out there and then give them a peace sign and hopefully they'll make it happen.

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, Flower, Giving

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• I need to take a punch in order for me to throw that hook.

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, Order, Needs

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• He said it's an honor to fight me, well I say that it's an honor to fight him as well.

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, Fighting, Honor

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• My father and I, we finally saw each other eye to eye and I think he's seeing me as a man, and I'm seeing him as the father he's always been.

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, Father, Eye

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• Not only did I win the fight, but I won something that's more than a fight could ever give me and that is gaining back a family.

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, Fighting, Winning

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• He's such a great kid and such a determined kid, and he's so strong.

  Nonito Donaire

  Strong, Motivation, Kids

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• Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, People, Criticism

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• You can't look good everytime, even if you try to no matter what.

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, Trying, Looks

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• I wanted to bring that old school mentality of "Fight Me!, Fight me!"

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, School, Fighting

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• As much as I have respect for him, this is for the crowd. The crowd didn't deserve what happened tonight.

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, Tonight, Crowds

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• I enjoy singing, I enjoy music as much as I enjoy photography, doing filming and stuff like that. I do a lot of things to express who I am.

  Nonito Donaire

  Photography, Motivation, Who I Am

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• I lived my life where I didn't have anything. I lived my life where people picked on me. Now that I am in a different light, I appreciate every moment of it.

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, Light, People

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