Thomas Hauser Quotes

People forget that boxing is the art of self-defence - ideally, hit and not be hit - and maybe we should all think about that a bit more.

I don't fight just because I love it just that much. I'm fighting because it's a job for me.

I don't like to see any sucker punches. I do think, in the heat of battle, if you're getting hit on the hip with 98, then you should be able to go out and see somebody.

By buying off the bottom in the real estate markets, I'm doing the best I can to protect myself from any future calamity. Time will tell whether it will work.

I think a lot of guys get out of wrestling for financial incentive to go to the UFC, but I'm doing well.

If you want street fight, let's go. If you want boxing, I show you. But people think I am, like, gangster. No. Ring is different world. Very dangerous.

Our servicemembers are focused every day on serving our country. It's our job to ensure that they have everything they need to do their jobs to the best of their ability. That must include effective consumer protections against predatory lending, already afforded under the Military Lending Act, for our men and women in uniform and their families.

I'm a guy who likes to keep fighting five, six times a year, so if I ask for too much money, they might say, 'Well, we pay you too much. We can't let you keep jumping backwards and forwards and promote it.' The money I'm making is good to keep grabbing short-notice fights. I love them; they're my favorite ones.

Everyone has a salary. Everyone has hopes and dreams for where they can invest their money. Everyone wants to do the best they can with it, and they don't want to be subjected to any sort of predatory lending.

There will never be a fighters' union. Ever.

A lot of people in MMA do part-time jobs.

In 20 years of career and 50 professional fights, I never refused to test or failed to apply for a license to fight.

The welfare state, which grew out of post-war solidarity, has for decades been based on the principle that those who pay into the system are entitled to expect that the safety net will be there for them when they fall on hard times.

I no fight for the money because I work hard for UFC for long time. I have money for my family. But I fight because I love it.

I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.

Just my two cents: Even as a Christian, I love boxing because it's the ultimate stand-alone test of a competitor's skill and will. Just two opponents, lightly gloved, and a referee ready to jump in and stop it the moment he believes one opponent can no longer defend himself.

I'll fight anyone for enough money. Give me half a million dollars.

I'm a prize fighter. Titles don't pay bills. I fight for money. I'm making money. They're making money. Everybody's making money. That's what this is all about.

As an amateur, we used to fight people from the same gym. You'd spar with each other and then fight each other in championships.

Even when I was fighting in China I met some guys on the local circuit that we're fighting, they didn't enjoy it, they wanted to be musicians and do other things, but they're just fighting because it pays the bills and they get money for it.

Even when you're on top in the UFC, you only get paid a couple times a year.

I think pre-nups are brilliant. I get very well taken care of.

Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis.

The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.

Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.