Challenging Opponent Quotes

I asked for a tough fight, and I'm very excited to fight such a good fighter and a former champion like Frankie Edgar.

I'll be honest when I tell you, Max Holloway is the hardest matchup out of everyone in our division. By far. And I was happy to take him back to back.

Everyone is at their best against the champions.

Joe Perry is always a big hurdle, he's always there in the later stages of a tournament. You have to be playing well to beat him, and if you do that you know you have a chance of winning the title.

There's no blueprint on how to beat me.

Playing Australia, of course, is always challenging.

Every fight brings out something different in me, and it will be no different in this one. I have learned and gained from all of those experiences. And as I've often said, the public hasn't seen the best of me yet. I need someone like Mayweather to bring that out of me.

Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting.

The toughest fight I've ever had was T. J. Grant.

I could definitely make 145. But if 'Cowboy' is going to 145, I'm going after somebody who matters.

Facing a great server makes a match so much more difficult, even for the best players in the world.

Man, I'm gonna tell you something about Evander Holyfield, when he fights a guy like me and I fight I guy like him, we always bring the best out of each other so by no means should anyone out there ever think that a fight like that is a cake walk because it's not.

It is always tough to play against Norwich.

Rafa is the toughest opponent to start a campaign against.

He's up there. But (Marat) Safin, on his game, is as hard to beat.

I love when people think it's going to be easy to guard me.

As a player it was always not easy to play against Australia. It was always very difficult.