Fighting Frequency Quotes

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.

That's all I ask the UFC to do: keep me active.

I know the UFC's a big organization, the best athletes and fighters are here, so... every third or fourth month, I'm ready to fight.

I don't want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.

I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults... When you're fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight without getting angry.

In the year 2013, I fought six times. I fought four times in two-and-a-half months.

The first am fight I had, I was 10 yrs. old. I didn't count, but as far as I remember, it was approximately 350 fights. It was a lot of fights.

But now in open division, I get to fight a lot more. I actually like that.

If a football player has a bad game, he's allowed to do that because he plays once or twice a week. With fighting, it's once every few months.

When I was in juniors, I was fighting twice a year and going nine months without fighting.

You know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.

I would love to fight a lot more often, but of course it's the UFC, and whenever they feel that they have an opening, then they can put us in there because there's so many fighters.

I love fighting, but I don't miss waiting months upon months just to fight once in front of people and then have to wait months again to fight once in front of people.

I don't see myself being in the sport a very long period of time, so I want to fight as much as possible.

People say they start from the bottom. If you want to see someone who's started from the bottom, go and look at my career. My first 10 fights, I think I paid for them myself. I've fought three times in one month.

Obviously, as a young, young, hungry fighter, I'd like to be fighting three or four times a year.

As long as we have enough fighters and fight cards to keep everybody fighting three times a year, that's where I want our roster to be.

Even in my first year in the UFC I fought five times in the year.

You do have to fight different when you might have to fight three times in one night. I really like fighting just one time a night, this lets you do more things.

It's not uncommon for some Khmer boxers to fight with dangerous frequency, sometimes as often as weekly or bi-weekly, getting up to three hundred or more fights in a career, with the length of a career varying from fighter to fighter, some engaging in bouts far past their prime.

In the amateurs we fought four or five times a week so we always had different opponents.

If I'm only fighting once or twice a year, that's just not going to be enough to make a dent in the sport or enough financially for me to get myself to where I want to be and position myself.

I have been very busy having so many fights since I turned pro. To have 13 in little more than two years is a lot by modern standards.

It's a big move from the 'Tough Man' circuit to professional boxing. When I turned pro, I had to play catch-up and was fighting almost twice a month until I had more than 20 fights under my belt.

Cutting to featherweight took months of intense weight cutting and training. Going to lightweight, I can fight more often.