Machida is not a bad guy; he's a victim of the brazilian education system. There are better ways to get electrolytes than drinking piss.
As a professional athlete, I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before. And not one of them has ever hurt me in a fist-fight, either. The only thing that has helped me is my skills and the only thing that hurt me is my opponent's skills.
They say if somebody has done something you want to do, all you need to do is go out and copy them.
Somebody is going to win & somebody is not, and that's fine... But we will never refuse to participate because we're scared to fail.
If Michael Bisping ever addresses me in a public comment again, I will bury him where he stands.
When Anderson walks into a room, you can hear a rat pissing on cotton.
I go to practice every day. I really don't have a training camp. In the boxing world, and that's where that came from, almost every time a guy would get out of the ring and he wouldn't break a sweat again until he went to his next training camp. He would do absolutely nothing until he started training for the next fight.
I went through a change in my life and my career where I finally understood how to train and prepare. I finally understood what it meant, and I've had so many fantasies about being able to go back and be 16 again. And redo parts of my high school career. Redo all of my college career. Redo my attempt to make an Olympic team.
I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.
You've got to listen to your body, notice some trends in yourself and do the best you can to be ready when a finish line approaches.
I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.
If I was mentoring a young fighter, I'd tell him to spend more time on boxing. That doesn't mean I would ignore kickboxing - you still need to learn the defenses - but in stand-up, it's hard to beat good, solid boxing.
Say what you want before the fight but when it's done, you accept the result.
If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.
Anderson isn't qualified to make Frank Mir a sandwich
I go to practice each and every day, but my intensity is not the same. If I get tired, I'll go sit down. If I want some water, I'll go drink it. When I'm in training camp, I don't. I've got to push through being tired. I've got to push through being uncomfortable. That's really it. It's largely a mentality. You kind of flip that switch and turn your intensity up. Your heart rate goes up. Your reps go up. And you start to get in the frame of mind.
A Black Belt under the Nogueira Brothers is like saying I got a free toy in my happy meal
For me, and people like me, fighting isn't what we do; it's who we are.
There's always pressure and that pressure is earned.
If I had nothing to do and I wanted to sit in a dark room and relax, I could at times. But to be busy is very nice. To have things to do and have a schedule.
As a professional athlete I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before.
