Pre-Fight Rituals Quotes

I don't need to concentrate or meditate before a fight. I'm the kind of guy who'll be having a laugh in the dressing room 10 minutes before the fight - that's me.

I prayed before fights. Especially just before I got in to the ring. But I'd also have my iPod on, Prodigy and Linkin Park ripping through my ears.

To say I was looking forward to fighting in Mexico for the first time is an understatement.

We do the weigh-in, then go for a walk, then have breakfast, then I listen to worship songs on my iPod because I'm a Christian. I always read the same Bible verses, too. We do the same warm-up a lot of the time as well. But, I have no superstitions before a fight.

Anyone who is friends with a fighter or lives with a fighter, you know that a fighter cutting weight is on edge.

I don't really believe in that ring rust stuff.

I'm always impressed by how fighters can compartmentalize their lives before big fights.

It's not an excuse, but I'd say I didn't perform well in the big fights because I wasn't prepared properly.

I'm a guy who likes to have fun, and I like everything normal people like, but I am always quoted before the fight when I'm jet-lagged and focused. In everyday life, I am different.

I listen to Frank Sinatra before my fight a lot, and I also listen to Orisha music, so both of those, I need, it's weird. It's a weird combination.

Getting in the cage, it's not like I need a whole mental preparation for it. It's just a fight.

Every fight day, I just stay in my room the entire day, and I just stay in bed. I sleep as late as I can, which usually isn't very late; I'm kind of an early riser. But I try to just stay there in bed. I don't usually eat the day of the fight. I don't eat until after the fight.

You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.