Fighter Identity Quotes

The sport needs a personality, not a fighter. We've got plenty of great fighters in the sport, but no personalities. No one is standing for anything. The last personality we had was Mike Tyson. He stood for something. It wasn't much, but he stood for something.

I don't want to be a cookie-cutter-poster-boy-bubble-gum-chewing fighter.

I feel great being the first Mexican heavyweight UFC champion.

The boxing public aren't interested in knowing me. They want to know The Hayemaker, the one who gives it big.

In my family I was never known as the fighter, like I became all of a sudden.

Being outspoken was important... I helped make the UFC what it is today with Chuck Liddell, Royce Gracie, and Randy Couture. Some said I was outspoken in a bad way, but I was just trying to educate the fans what being a UFC fighter is all about.

I want to be remembered as the man who changed the pay scale for featherweights, who put the sparkle back in boxing after Muhammad Ali left, the man who took risks with his ring entrance, the man who, before the fight, would do a front flip into the ring without even thinking about turning an ankle, and then knocking his man out. I mean out.

I have lived in Ireland, visited all my life, and when I fight, I represent Ireland.

When you talk about me as a fighter, I like being known as a Mexican fighter. I think 'Mexican' or 'Hispanic' should be mentioned.

I'm not who I am without the organization of Bellator.

When you’re the best fighter in the world today, they don’t call you a great fighter. They call you Chael Sonnen.

I tried to change my name for the fights, but the only way they could pay me money was if I used my own name. I wanted to change my name to, like, Romeo something-or-other, and they said, "No, we can't do that. We've got to use Mickey Rourke." Because they paid me a lot of money to go over to Europe and Asia to fight.

When I fought Holmes, I feel I was a better fighter than he was. I was just so caught up in what was written about the fight - I got caught up in that whole thing.

With me, somehow because I've been fighting outside the UFC, I still have to prove myself.

I have so many other talents other than fighting, and I would love to be able to show those off. I would like to say, 'Yes, I'm a fighter, and I'm this,' or, 'Yes I'm a fighter, but I'm also this.'

It's hard to just go one day from another to being one of the best fighters in the world to just stop doing what you love to do.

Fighter, father, husband - it's all the same person. I know the UFC stereotype is that we're all thugs. But I'd like people to know that I don't have to switch one off to try to be another. Being a father and a fighter, it's who I am.

I am who I am and I tune my training to the fighter I am.

I just want to be remembered as one of the toughest champions with his own attitude.

I hate it when people call me a cage fighter. I'm a mixed martial artist. But people take one look at what we do, and they just start making assumptions.

Just because I beat David Haye doesn't make me a great fighter. I'm still the same fighter that I was.

The way I lived my life, I truly wasn't an active resistance fighter.

I'm always going to be a New Zealand fighter. I'm a Kiwi, of course, and I've still got my New Zealand passport.

My goal is to become the best person I can, and in the process of doing so, I believe, I can help others. I'm also trying to make history in mixed martial arts and become known as the best 135-pound fighter to ever compete.

I made it a goal of mine to fight the biggest challenges, so that people can appreciate who I am as a fighter.