Best quotes by Stephen Thompson on Fight
Checkout quotes by Stephen Thompson on Fight
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‟ I believe that God gave us gifts to help serve Him and He gave me the gift. I'm a people person. I'm also an instructor at Upstate Karate, but I've got the gift of fight, man. After every fight, I try to give all the glory to Him. I believe He gave us, like I said, the abilities to do that.
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‟ Michael Bisping, in one of his last fights, he stepped out there too soon. He had a brutal fight with Georges St-Pierre and then real quick jumped in against Kelvin Gastelum and just got put away. If you do that, if you step out there too soon... this is your livelihood.
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‟ Everybody wants to see somebody get knocked out. I'm sorry but it's the fight game and that's what they want to see.
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‟ You know I tore my MCL in the fight with Till. We did an MRI and thankfully nothing else was damaged.
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‟ When you're out there in the octagon and you've got thousands of people, millions across the world, either cheering for you to win or cheering for you to get knocked out, the adrenaline is going, so it doesn't hurt while you're out there. Now fast forward to about an hour and a half to two hours after the fight? Oh yes. It's pretty painful.
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‟ When I was 15, I fought a guy who was 26 and he was 20-0, undefeated. It was a way for my dad to show me that I was better than I thought. I ended up beating the brakes off this 26-year-old guy. After the fight, the announcer asked my opponent how it felt. He answered, 'I wonder why I stepped in the ring with that boy.'
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‟ Anybody in the division's top 15 I would love to fight.
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‟ Everybody asks 'would you fight Conor McGregor?' - of course I'd fight Conor McGregor but it's not because of the money. It's because he's such a huge martial artist and everybody considers themselves the best if you fight Conor McGregor, if you beat Conor McGregor. I look at it like that.
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‟ I'd fight for free to be honest with you.
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‟ After my last fight with Woodley, I ended up hurting my knee so I was out for almost six months.
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‟ During the fight, if you feel something, you know it's pretty bad, because normally you don't feel anything. You get punched and elbowed in the face, you don't feel it until after the fight.
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‟ Whenever I fight, whenever you see me fight, I work a lot off of angles, using my kicks a lot.
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