Rashad Evans
I'm open to fighting at 185 or 205 pounds, but I think I need to give this 185-pound run a real, honest crack. Being at this weight class has definitely made me into a different fighter.
Ring rust is real. I've experienced it myself.
I enjoy the whole aspect of training with different people.
I want to train with whoever is the best.
You want your workout to sneak up on you. That's when you get the best results.
The results of anything are equal to how persistent you are with it, so if you're persistent and dedicate yourself to working out, you'll get bigger results.
I remember the first time I fought somebody with a name and that was Tito Ortiz. I didn't start fighting until like the second round because I was like, 'Oh my God, that's Tito Ortiz. That's Tito Ortiz from TV. Look how big his head is, damn.'
It's like when your parents tell you what to do, but it's not until you go through it yourself that you see why they said what they said. Sometimes you just have to go through things in life to become a better person.
It was really difficult being away from MMA because it's been a way of life for me for 13 years. But being on the outside and coaching helps you sharpen your skills because you have to explain what you do, why things work and why other things don't.
We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.Collection: Fighting
You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you’re at your weakest.Collection: Know Yourself
All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks...When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.Collection: Wrestling
It's about feeling alive in the moment because your adrenaline is going, your thinking about that present moment, you're not somewhere else, you're not thinking about what's going to happen 10 minutes from now, and that's the reason why I love fighting, it's when I'm in there. I feel free, I feel like there's no other place I want t be. I can't even think of anything beyond that second. That's why I'm drawn to the fight, because I love the presence of it, where it brings me mentally, it's the purest thing for me.Collection: Fighting
My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but still able to smile. See it's one thing to overcome adversity and to be scarred and to carry that with you but when you have somebody overcomes adversity and they're still able to smile that's something else. That's true strength.Collection: Mother
To live is to fight. We just fight in different arenas.Collection: Fighting
I am a student of whoever I can learn from. I don't see myself in position like I'm above anybody else and I can never learn, or no one can ever teach me anything. You learn a lot from guys who are just starting off sometimes.Collection: Guy
To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.Collection: Fighting
My main job is to go and have fun. When I do that, everything just seems to fall into place.Collection: Jobs
I am a student of whoever I can learn from.Collection: Mma
Before a fight I'm always afraid... before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try to run away from it, but then as I competed more I understood the fact that this is how I'm supposed to feel.Collection: Running
I don't fight to prove that I'm tough, I know I'm tough. I fight because it's inside of me.Collection: Fighting
Life is a celebration… I try to enjoy it as much as possible.Collection: Trying
A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things.Collection: Thinking
If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.Collection: Art
Being a great fighter is having a perfect balance of having that toughness, skill, as well as that mental capability to be able to out-think you opponent.Collection: Thinking
I'm a UFC fighter, a macho-type sport. I am a heterosexual guy in a tough macho sport, which is exactly the reason I feel a duty to say I support gay marriage and gay rights. I have nothing to gain personally from supporting this issue, and that's the point. Society as a whole is better when there is equality, and I want to live in a country where everyone has the same rights because we all benefit from that.Collection: Sports
As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.Collection: Athlete
One day these will just be memories that I haveso I try to enjoy it as much as possibleCollection: Memories