Chuck Liddell Quotes
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I started doing martial arts since I was 12, and then I went into wrestling in college. After I met John Hackleman, I started getting really serious about it, and after a few amateur fights, I got an invite to the UFC and have been in love with it ever since.
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Mixed martial arts is great, and it's here to stay.
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It's one of those things: I'm never gonna get over not fighting, I don't think, but I'm content with my decision to retire.
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I don't read a lot of MMA news. I try to stay out of it.
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I have a great time with the kids. I'm always happy when they're around.
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My first contract I was offered by the UFC, or my second contract, it was 1-and-1, 2-and-2, 3-and-3. That's $12,000 for the year. Don't complain to me about fighter pay. It was $12,000 for a year, and it was exclusive.
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You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.
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That's one of the reasons I retired. To stick around, the way I was fighting, I would have to start playing it safe. I went out on my shield. That's the way I liked it. I fought that way my whole career. I don't want to bore people my last three or four fights.
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I have had people that I was doing some promotion stuff with go, 'You know, we had an idea. We should have, like, a legends fight.' It's always that. That conversation always comes up when we're talking about doing some promotion for a company or helping them promote their league.
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I tell the guys all the time, 'if you have a good puncher, all the way in or all the way out.' Don't stay there and box.
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When I'm training for a fight, I work out two or three times a day for five days a week.
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I think the reasons I retired stay the same. I don't want to change my style. I can't take a punch like I used to for whatever reason. I've heard all sorts of theories as to why that would happen, but I can't do it.
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I try to stay in shape and am always consistently working out.
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Some guys are gym fighters, some guys are better in the ring.
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I'm one of those guys: I'm out there trying to punch you out and to hurt you, but as soon as I'm done, hopefully there's nothing wrong with you; I'm hoping that you're okay.
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It's hard for me to fake smile. I personally think I look stupid fake smiling.
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My whole life, I've been training for something, whether it be baseball or football or wrestling or martial arts.
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I do some weightlifting, a lot of different weight stuff, strength and conditioning stuff, a little bit of everything.
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Numbers have always come easy to me.
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Mountain Dew was my favorite drink through college; it kept me up studying for a lot of tests.
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I'm probably not going to be popular with the fighters with this one, but my biggest problem is guys playing it safe. I understand it from a coach's standpoint and a manager's standpoint. I understand why you'd want to play it safe and want to win the fight, win every fight. I get it.
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I like aggressive fighters who will come after me.
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I like Glover Teixeira; he's a former training partner.
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The worst thing is losing because you got tired, because you didn't work hard enough in training. Ugh, that's the worst.