Quotes About Mma

#1. Don't be satisfied ... always try to strive for more.

Johny Hendricks

#2. Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity

Anderson Silva

#3. You don't need to be special to be awesome. You just need to do the work.

Jason Ellis

#4. People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.

Gina Carano

#5. Happiness is realizing your dreams.

Mauricio Rua

#6. Live your life with a smile regardless the circumstances.

Josh Thomson

#7. Each person may see a fight in different ways ... They can see more to a primal way. Others they can see in a pure artistic way ... For me I see the pure artistic way, the way that a true martial artist can show his art.

Roger Gracie

#8. The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel.

Joe Rogan

#9. If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

Dominick Cruz

#10. If I know the outcome is not going to devastate my life, it makes me so much more excited for everything that's to come.

Sara McMann

#11. I stay ready so I don't have to get ready.

Conor McGregor

#12. I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts.

Evander Holyfield

#13. There's a never-ending ocean of techniques out there.

Joe Rogan

#14. I work hard and fight easy.

Conor McGregor

#15. When you've been through that, a fight just doesn't seem that cataclysmic.

Brian Stann

#16. I have never encountered a winner that held hate towards something.

Conor McGregor

#17. One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

Georges St-Pierre

#18. Mma Ramotswe decided to go back into her office. There was a curious thing about male conversation that she had noticed - men often ended up poking fun at one another. Women did this only rarely, but men seemed to love insulting one another. It was very strange.

Alexander McCall Smith

#19. It's really nice to know hard work does pay off.

Rose Namajunas

#20. I have a big belief that whatever your passion is in life, pursue it to the fullest and try to be the best at it.

Myles Jury

#21. There's always pressure but I change that pressure into motivation.

Lyoto Machida

#22. I'm too competitive to get that big of a head.

T.J. Dillashaw

#23. Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.

Conor McGregor

#24. The most valuable things in life can't be bought with money.

Phillipe Nover

#25. You really can't worry about stuff you can't control ... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.

Robbie Lawler

#26. The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them

Miyamoto Musashi

#27. Just to clear the record ive never turn down a mma fight against anyone and never will.

Jon Jones

#28. Be honest and humble enough to learn from everybody.

Ricardo Liborio

#29. You are innocent in your heart," she had said to him. "That is the most important thing." And he had thought about that for a few moments before shaking his head and saying, "I would like that to be true, Mma, but it is not. It is what other people think. That is the most important thing.

Alexander McCall Smith

#30. Do your best ... really that's all you can ask for from an athlete.

Jessica Penne

#31. When thing are at it's worse you dig deep and finish your mission or be carried out on your shield.

Cung Le

#32. My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one."

Donald Cerrone

#33. I don't care if people boo me or talk trash to me. I can't understand what they're saying anyways.

Jose Aldo

#34. Our stomachs live in towns, said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else.

Alexander McCall Smith

#35. Nurture you mind with great thoughts

Gunnar Nelson

#36. Every little detail to every little movement must be perfect. Perfection in movement.

Conor McGregor

#37. 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.

Rashad Evans

#38. They say if somebody has done something you want to do, all you need to do is go out and copy them.

Chael Sonnen

#39. You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.

Sara McMann

#40. Rich people are just people," said Mma Ramotswe. "I have not met a rich person yet who isn't just the same as us. Being happy or unhappy has nothing to do with being rich.

Alexander McCall Smith

#41. A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

Duane Ludwig

#42. Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no.

Alexander McCall Smith

#43. It's always nice to look in the mirror at the end of the day and see that you helped somebody's life ... even if only a little bit.

Tito Ortiz

#44. Believe in your own potential for greatness.

Evan Tanner

#45. It's all about how I feel about things. I never expect much, I always felt like I obey my heart.

Rickson Gracie

#46. Failure isn't failure unless you just stop with that.

Miesha Tate

#47. I plot my ascent daily.

Conor McGregor

#48. When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

Georges St-Pierre

#49. Most of the awesome people I know are just normal people who were insanely driven.

Jason Ellis

#50. When I'm doing my best is when I'm completely focused ... You completely wipe off any thoughts of the future, there's nothing going on in the past, you're just completely locked in on the moment, and there's no thinking, you're zoned in on this moment in time.

Frank Mir

#51. I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z.

T-Pain

#52. Touching souls ... The best feeling in the world.

Renzo Gracie

#53. I have MMA strengths, but I need to build on my weaknesses.

Holly Holm

#54. When you have a little bit more of a threat, I guess you just have a better sense of urgency, and for me that's when the best comes out in me

Jake Ellenberger

#55. Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself ... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.

Conor McGregor

#56. I am afraid to piss in the morning 'cause I don't want to waste any of my excellence

Miguel Torres

#57. It's a mindset, it's all in the mind.

Urijah Faber

#58. You're not beating when you lose, you're beaten when you quit.

Jesse Brock

#59. Money can't buy happiness but it's more comfortable to cry in a Bugatti than on a bicycle.

Miguel Torres

#60. You have to walk and believe that you can find the light.

Lyoto Machida

#61. I am the kind of person that if something scares me then I feel like have to do it. That's something I have to conquer. I need to break that fear and go to it.

Barb Honchak

#62. All that matters is how you see yourself.

Conor McGregor

#63. People can't measure the amount of heart you have and how much you're willing to fight for something.

Blake Griffin

#64. Even though I had a rough life I always had my mind on bigger and better things.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#65. The Samurai always has to rise and move on, because new challenges will come.

Lyoto Machida

#66. Everything is worth more when you have to earn it.

Jason Ellis

#67. There's a lot of nerves. It all goes away though once they say "fight".

Rory MacDonald

#68. As long as you know you gave whatever you did 100% you're considered a winner in my book.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#69. The key to anything in boxing and life is sticking to it. Never give up.

John Molina Jr.

#70. You're in a fight and have to dig down ... I find peace in that and enjoy it.

Dustin Poirier

#71. Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.

Georges St-Pierre

#72. Whether you want to be the best at your job, or at sports, just do your best. Give it everything you have.

Nick Newell

#73. There is no job feels as lonely as that of a fighter but there is also no bond closer than the one he shares with his corner.

Colin Robinson

#74. We all could be great, but we have to be open our mind to the way in which we could.

Kenny Florian

#75. It's all about being happy with your life and having fun. At least that's what works for me.

Donald Cerrone

#76. Lions walk on four legs," observed Mma Makutsi. "Was this man walking on four legs? That can be a big giveaway, Mma.

Alexander McCall Smith

#77. The human heart, you see, Mma Ramotswe, is pretty much the same wherever one goes.

Alexander McCall Smith

#78. If I didn't positive have people influencing my life in a positive way, I don't know where I'd be right now. So if I can do that just in one person's life, it's all worth it to me.

Mark Munoz

#79. You can't be too comfortable. I have to keep pushing myself to be a better fighter every step of the way.

Alexander Gustafsson

#80. One of my mom's best lines is ... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.

Ronda Rousey

#81. When it comes to fighting you shouldn't be thinking at all. You have to clear your mind and trust yourself completely.

Gunnar Nelson

#82. The more motivation, the more passion you have behind it ... There's nothing that can stop you.

Jake Ellenberger

#83. I'm not much of a planner. I set a goal and there really is nothing else ... no plan B.

Eddie Alvarez

#84. The best way to pursue any discipline is the martial art way.

Joe Rogan

#85. You can delay but you can't deny.

Tyron Woodley

#86. Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around.

Georges St-Pierre

#87. When a ball goes into a net it only means something because we decided it means something. When somebody punches somebody in the face it always means something.

Joe Rogan

#88. Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.

Forrest Griffin

#89. I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious.

Ronda Rousey

#90. I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.

Gunnar Nelson

#91. If you have enemies, then your biggest enemy is yourself. Do you know that, Mma?

Alexander McCall Smith

#92. I think you take whatever it is that you would do for free and you figure out the way to do it.

Dana White

#93. I'm a menace to society,
But girls in biker shorts are so fly to me.
After the date, I'mma want to do the wild thing ...
You're talkin' lobster? I'm thinkin' Burger King.

Ice Cube

#94. The losses are good ... if you learn something.

Royce Gracie

#95. Movement is meditation. Move to win.

Conor McGregor

#96. To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

Helio Gracie

#97. In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.

Joe Rogan

#98. No matter how hard you're going, you can always go harder.

Pat Barry

#99. To me, life is memories and experiences.

Renzo Gracie

#100. Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

Georges St-Pierre