Evander Holyfield Quotes

Nobody's going to give you the World Cup; nobody's going to give you an easy game - not Scotland, not Argentina, not Japan, and not whoever we get going forward.

But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.

I prefer to work when there are people against whom I have to struggle.

I just want to fight the best.

I want to fight the guys that are world-class beaters. That's who I want to get in there with.

I am a competitor, so I only want the best fighters in the world.

I want to fight the best possible people.

If you're a competitor, this is what you want. You want all of the games to have meaning, context and to be the best competition.

This is why I go into this sport: to fight the best guy in the world.

When you want to win a competition you have to play all the best teams.

If you want to be the best, you've got to beat the best. The only problem is when I get that belt, who's going to be left to fight? That's what I want to know.

People wonder why I dislike my opponents. It's not personal or that I hate them: it's just that I know what I've had to sacrifice to face them.

I'm about fighting the best guys.

The reason why I got into mixed martial arts is the competition: I'm a competitor. I wouldn't be doing this for anything else but competition. I want to take out the best.

I wanna fight the best.

My personal goals are to fight and beat the best opponent possible.

I've always fought the best guys.

Competition all over the field is great.

I think I have a big advantage. But it's certainly a three-person race. And you have a couple of other people that are very talented there too. So we have a five-man race. And I think that it's going to be not easy. I have a big advantage. But a long way from being won.

I don't play against any team in particular. I play to fight against defeat.

My agent called me and said, they watched you do Chopped Champions and they thought you'd be good for this competition. What do you think? And I said, well, what do you think? He said he thought it would be great and I said let's do it. When you decide to do this, you don't really think that you're going to win it. I thought it would be fun, good to test my mettle; games are fun like that. Why not? I'll try it.

But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.

People think I would never take on a team that has no legitimate chance to win a championship, This is one of the major misconceptions about me. Success can be measured in many different ways. . . . Either way, I would find the challenge invigorating.

You gotta fight all the karate guys, and once you kill them off, now you gotta get to the ninjas. Once you get through the ninjas, now you gotta get to the showmen. Now me, I'm the showman of big men.

Sometimes worst enemies like a Mohammed Ali and Joe Frazier that's what makes you fight so hard. Without them they never would have achieved greatness.