Eddie Alvarez Quotes
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I think it's important to say that I am genuinely thankful for the time at Bellator.
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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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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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Having your worst nightmares kind of come true is truly liberating.
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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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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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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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I won my first 10 fights by knockout. The money was getting larger at the same time.
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When I say 'fighter,' I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.
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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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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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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'm not here if Bill Hunter never forced my hand in wrestling. It was a pivotal point in my life.
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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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Although I'm shorter, all of my weight I carry in my back and my butt. That's where most of my weight is.
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The fighters and the fights are what makes UFC great.
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I boxed. I did track and field; I did basketball, football, any sport I was able to sign up for.
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I want to fight Gilbert Melendez.
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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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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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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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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 think when it comes to re-signing with an organisation, there's no real compromise if you're trying to move on.