Eddie Alvarez Quotes
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I won my first 10 fights by knockout. The money was getting larger at the same time.
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I don't have a nickname. But, hey, they can call me what they want - The Silent Assassin, The Underground King. In Japan, they call me American Knuckle Star. Call me what you want.
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There's a lot of guys in the UFC who are good at one thing, and they get matched up stylistically well.
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I've got the fighting Irish, and Puerto Ricans are some of the best fighters in the world. I'm proud of who I am, but it doesn't define me as a person.
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People say I'm good at standup. I don't even think I'm that great at standup. I just hit hard. I don't think I'm super technical or anything like that. I got a couple knockouts. I think I just hit hard more than anything.
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I started this fight career with one objective. When I step inside a ring or an octagon, it is to beat the guy in front of me.
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Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend's door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.
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The fighters and the fights are what makes UFC great.
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I like to keep a high pace, violent fight. I don't like to waste time, and I don't like to go to the judges. I feel like I've fought long enough where I can adapt to just about any situation.
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I don't want to go that route where I'm going into fights dehydrated. I used to fight at 170 pounds. I was 10-0 at 170 with eight knockouts. I'm not going to listen to somebody from the outside tell me what weight I should be fighting at.
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The most comical thing for me, even when I watch movies, is the guy who's so crazy confident about himself, with the mink jacket - to me, that is so funny. I wish I could be like that. As a fighter, I wish I could do that, so I could make people laugh. But I can't; it's not my style.
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The truth is, a large majority of the market, I'd guess 80 percent, doesn't know anything more than what they are sold.
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I've knocked a ton of guys out. I know the power I have and the advantages I have against the best in the world.
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I can walk into a restaurant and knock five guys out, become 5-0 real quick. It's about the quality of opponent. You have to beat the right guys to call yourself the No. 1 contender.
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I was never the most technical; I was never the best at one aspect at this sport, but what I was always good as was negating people's strengths and putting them in terrible situations where they're uncomfortable.
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The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It's about what's inside - what really is inside.
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These kinds of fights, these big fights that get everyone talking and interested, these are the fights I want.
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I know what I can do at 155.
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I'm not here if Bill Hunter never forced my hand in wrestling. It was a pivotal point in my life.
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When I fought Nick Thompson, I wasn't experienced enough. That was the first person that put me in a real fight. Before Nick, nobody had put me in a fight where I had to struggle.
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You don't want to be in a fight of the year. It takes years off your life. But, it's why fans tune in; it's why people gravitate toward your fights. It's why people want to watch you fight. It's important to get into them, but it's important to try not to get into too many of them.
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My biggest fear as a fighter is to be knocked out in front of millions of people. But after it actually happened, there's this calmness about you that says everything is OK.
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I want to fight Gilbert Melendez.
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Although I'm shorter, all of my weight I carry in my back and my butt. That's where most of my weight is.