Training Partners Quotes

I train mainly with guys, and they help to push me.

You got to surround yourself with the strongest in the world, the strongest training partners and the best people. That's what I do.

Each time I'm training and sparring, I'm always pushing myself to submit my training partners.

I have great people around me, I have great training partners, and I think if you really want something you work for it and you get it.

Me and Bellew, we started off in the same amateur gym together.

When I was scheduled to fight in Japan, and then I would come back to the United States, I would have to train, but there was nobody to train here. There was no such thing as a striker going with a grappler, or a striker going to the ground with a grappler, or a grappler standing up and fighting with a boxer.

Little injuries are always happening, so you've just got to train through those. You've also got to have the right training partners, people you trust.

I won't fight Thiago Silva. I won't fight Cezar 'Mutante' Ferreira. I won't fight anybody who I train with.

When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, who I had grown up with, which showed me some moves, but it was never a full on match. When I went to competitions, there were other girls, so I always wrestled girls.

I give a lot of credit to my training partners and to my coaches. Both Greg Jackson and Michael Winklejohn are amazing.

I've known Woodley for nine-plus years, ten-plus years. We've worked out together plenty. He's one of the guys who used to slam me all around the place. I was at 155, he was at 170 pounds and he was just the wrestler that is a superpower. So that was one of the dudes that got my wrestling a little better from going with guys like that.

Not everybody out here trains with me; not everybody knows what I'm capable of. My coaches know what I'm capable of, my training partners know what I'm capable of, and I know what I'm capable of.

The only way to get better is to wrestle better people and work with better guys; that's the only way to get better in our business.

Biggest rival is Kaillie Humphries of Canada, and we are actually training partners. She was at my wedding, and I consider her a close friend.

You need good training partners - because you’re only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better.

To fight a bigger guy you need to train with bigger guys and it takes a lot more on your body. And it's not your weight class.

I'm ATT to the bone. I have my close circle of people, my clique - Jorge Masvidal, Mike Brown, Dan Lambert. I'm not friends with everybody. It's a gym, but this is a one-man sport.