“Boxer guys are very tough and they play a very tough game, but its a game. Karate guys, tae kwon doe guys, kickboxers or judo guys, they are very tough guys and a lot of heart and a lot of training, but its very specifically as a sport. It's not a fight. A fight is everything goes.” HeartDoePlayGuyFightingGamesSportsTrainingToughBoxersKarateJudoTough GuyTough Games Author:Rickson Gracie
“When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.” KindLawFightingSportsInterestEffortGoneTroubleStreetsFieldsCaughtStuckRoughBehaviourRugby Author:Daniel Cudmore
“Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.” FightingSportsAirMilitaryMurderAviationCombatFighter PilotMilitary Aviation Author:Eddie Rickenbacker
“I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight. We're capable of kickboxing, wrestling, but I like to stand out. That's what I really pride myself on. What can I do to stand out from the other people in my sport.” PeopleDifferentFightingSportsPrideCapableExcitingWrestlingStanding OutUfcKickboxing Author:Anthony Pettis
“Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.” IfsFightingSportsHumbleAfrican AmericanBoxingMartial ArtsMmaBoxersHumbleness Author:Mike Tyson
“Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.” ThinkingArtBigsAbleFightingStrongSportsDifferencesPowerfulBrainHugeDiedToleranceGutsMartial ArtsMmaDinosaursAnalogiesAdaptabilityCockroachesForward ThinkingMixed Martial Arts Author:Georges St-Pierre
“I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.” ThinkingDoeFactsSeemsFightingWinningSportsAthleteUglyHarmBotherOpponentsDamage Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.” ThinkingShouldFightingSportsAttitudeAmbivalence Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“I don't want any sports anymore, except fighting which is the only sport I really watch - whether it's boxing or UFC. I don't know why. I think maybe it's an aspiration I didn't get the chance to explore more, but I don't think my father expected anything from me, I think it's more what I put on myself.” ThinkingKnowsWantFightingFatherSportsChanceWatchesExpectedAspirationBoxingUfc Author:Channing Tatum
“I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.” WritingFightingGamesSportsMountainDrivingClimbingRacingLinkedPromotingBullsMotorMountain ClimbingMotor Racing Author:Brock Yates
“I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way I can keep them from getting to my family. I have to clean up my friends because they are around my boys. It's upsetting.” KnowsWayI CanHelpingFightingSportsBoysTypeMy FriendsMy FamilyCleanUpsetDemonMy Boys Author:Michael Irvin
“My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.” TryingFightingSportsGoalWeekClubsBangsDefendersStrikers Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy
“People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.” PeopleWantSpiritualFightingSportsEmotionalWillingPercentContactBoxingDishesContact Sports Author:Mike Tyson
“I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me, maybe because I love sports.” ThinkingBodyFightingLanguageStuffSportsNaturalDepartmentBody Language Author:Antonio Banderas
“There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch.” ThinkingFightingSportsWatchesIntuitionRemarkablePossessedBoxersUncanny Book:On Boxing Source: On Boxing
“That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.” GivingCountryFightingSportsOne ThingGiving UpDon't Give Up Author:Louis Zamperini
“The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another.” DiesFightingSportsPleasureWorryCreaturesCrueltyInferiorsHuntsGluttonyCovetousnessOverwork Author:Tom Tryon
“Leadership is one of sports intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, Follow me.” GuyFightingSportsFasterScoreFollow MeSkates Author:Paul Coffey
“Anytime you lose one fight in the UFC, you kind of have to feel like you are on the chopping block. There is so much competition in this sport.” FeelsKindFightingSportsLosesLike YouCompetitionBlockUfcChopping Author:Charlie Brenneman
“I get over bad games right away. Sometimes I've let it go even before I've left the mound. That quick. Why? Because it's over. What can you do about it? Nothing. The only thing you can do is fight if you're still in the game. After that you can do nothing.” IfsStillsSometimesMotivationFightingGamesLeftSportsCan DoGet OverLet It GoSoftballBad Games Author:Mariano Rivera
“I physically feel very fit. I’m very motivated to keep on playing on a very high level. I’m going to try to use these years in front of me to fight for the number one of the world and fight for the biggest titles.” WorldFeelsTryingYearsUseFightingSportsLevelsNumbersFrontsFitTitlesMotivatedHigh Level Author:Novak Djokovic
“Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.” HeartArtistFightingWinningSportsLeaderSuccessfulTeacherPlayerFootballScientistCoachesCharacteristicsExecutivesDedicatedHonoredHallmarkMoraleWill To WinFootball CoachCoaches And PlayersEnterprising Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking back it makes so much sense. It's like it was a fight against the photograph.” PeopleMadeWantedFightingSportsWallMarkPhotographAbstractLooking BackInteriors Author:Idris Khan
“Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up.” ImportantFightingSportsTeachGrowing UpGrowingLessonsLoyaltyClosestWarfareImportant Lessons Author:Tinker Hatfield
“It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved them, and they pulled out this fighting spirit, making them what they are. Sometimes in life, God gives us a difficulty in order to bring out the fighting spirit. Everything that happens to you can happen for good if you have this spirit. The essential thing in life is not in the conquering, but in the fight.” IfsGivingMayMadeSometimesHappensLife IsSpiritOrderFightingSportsSoundLeadershipHurtStrangeEssentialsDifficultyMovedConquerChampionThings In LifeFighting SpiritSetbackSometimes In LifeBeen HurtChampions Are Made Author:Bob Richards
“I think I'm better than Jake (Shields), I think I should be fighting for the title, but I've been given a huge opportunity here to fight B.J. Penn and that's a big fight, belt or no belt. We're in a sport of selling fights right now, and the sport's growing, we're trying to get international, trying to get into every country, every household, and part of that is ticket sales is the idea that Jake Shields is coming over from Strikeforce with two belts. I understand that, it's a business decision.” ThinkingShouldTryingTwoIdeasCountryBigsFightingOpportunityGivenSportsDecisionGrowingHugeRight NowInternationalSellingTitlesHouseholdTicketsBeltsShieldsJakeBusiness Decisions Author:Jon Fitch
“You’ve got to fight for that connection with God all the time no matter what you're going through in life. I'm growing up. I'm maturing. But I definitely think that the backbone of this is the freedom and creativity I have without the fear of failing. If I fail, what's going to happen? Nothing. I'm not looking for my self-worth in the sport.” IfsThinkingSelfMatterHappensFightingSportsCreativityGrowing UpGrowingFailingConnectionsNo Matter WhatSelf WorthMatureBackboneMy Self WorthFear Of Failing Author:Kelly Clark