Paige VanZant Quotes

With my style, training is very rigorous. You're toe-to-toe, getting beat on six days a week for five or six weeks leading to a fight. There's no fun, no glamour.

When I first got into the sport it was all about who could cut the most weight, who could be the biggest on fight night. That's the same era when you're sparring 10 five minute rounds, new partner every two and a half minutes, that era of just really hard weight cutting and really hard full contact training.

The day I step in the cage with Cyborg, I will be 100% prepared.

When I prepare for a fight, I never expect it to be easy. I believe that that would create a chance for me to not give my best in the Octagon.

Going into a fight with Cyborg, you need to be as on point as possible.

The cut made me hate the process of getting ready for a fight. I was focused on how to make weight instead of how to beat my opponent.

It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you'll ever do is to box - to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

It's about getting in there and being ready, getting the fight on your terms, taking the least amount of punishment possible.

I train seven days a week. I'm mentally and physically prepared for any situation that I might be thrown in, and that's what puts me in the upper echelon compared to other Knockouts.

You need to prepare for every fight.

To do eleven fights in four months is pretty crazy. In some shows that we do in Asia, there are three or four fights over a six-month period, so you have time to recover and gain your stamina.

Anytime you think about ring rust and travel and camps back-to-back, it helps not having any bad injuries and being able to train consistently.

Training for a fight is never easy, regardless of the opponent.

I like to train and then step in the cage and do my job. This is the thing that I like to do.

It's MMA. I'm a complete MMA fighter. I expect everything. I'm ready for all of it.

Whatever UFC wants to do or any opponent they want to give me, I'll be ready for that.

From the very beginning, every time I trained for a fight, I didn't train to beat the guy I was fighting. I trained to beat Anderson Silva.

I'd love a training camp. But if they walked in the door right now and said, 'Do you want to fight for the title in the next 10 minutes?' I'm out the door, warming up, ready to go.

Every fight, I train for the opponent very hard and smart.

The last few weeks are always the hardest during any fight camp.

Wrestling has made me very mentally strong, conditioned me really well for MMA, and given me phenomenal balance.

All I can do is make sure Demetrious Johnson does the best he can on fight night and goes out and wins his fights.

I think I'm one of the hardest-training fighters in the world.

When I'm training for a fight, I'm not the same person that I normally am when I'm at home. I'm always thinking about fighting. I'm doing it day in and day out. Pretty soon, my personality starts to change. My temper's a little bit shorter, I don't have a lot of patience for a lot of things.