Sonnen Quotes

#1. When you're the best fighter in the world today, they don't call you a great fighter. They call you Chael Sonnen.

Chael Sonnen

#2. If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.

Chael Sonnen

#3. Send anyone you want, but don't send anyone you want back.

Chael Sonnen

#4. I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.

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#5. You tell Anderson Silva that I'm coming over and I'm kicking down his backdoor and patting his little lady on the ass and I'm telling her to make me a steak, medium-rare just how I like it.

Chael Sonnen

#6. Somebody is going to win & somebody is not, and that's fine ... But we will never refuse to participate because we're scared to fail.

Chael Sonnen

#7. As soon as you start to get tired, as soon as you start to get behind, as soon as your coach starts yelling at you, a lot of doors open up to quit; you got to find that one reason to stay in that battle, one reason to stay in the fire and fight.

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#8. If I was mentoring a young fighter, I'd tell him to spend more time on boxing. That doesn't mean I would ignore kickboxing - you still need to learn the defenses - but in stand-up, it's hard to beat good, solid boxing.

Chael Sonnen

#9. Wanderlei Silva, six feet tall and 205 pounds, boy, until I met you, I didn't know they could stack crap that high,

Chael Sonnen

#10. Machida is not a bad guy; he's a victim of the brazilian education system. There are better ways to get electrolytes than drinking piss.

Chael Sonnen

#11. For me, and people like me, fighting isn't what we do; it's who we are.

Chael Sonnen

#12. Never piss off a gangster.

Chael Sonnen

#13. Anderson isn't qualified to make Frank Mir a sandwich

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#14. Say what you want before the fight but when it's done, you accept the result.

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#15. There's always pressure and that pressure is earned.

Chael Sonnen

#16. Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

Chael Sonnen

#17. GSP is good, but don't get me wrong he better stay at 170 with the other midgetts.

Chael Sonnen

#18. A Black Belt under the Nogueira Brothers is like saying I got a free toy in my happy meal

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#19. They'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous, failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times. But it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed.

Chael Sonnen

#20. I don't do camps. Camps are for kids. I don't sleep in tents or roast marshmallows. I certainly don't tell ghost stories or own a sleeping bag. But I do work hard every single day.

Chael Sonnen

#21. If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.

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#22. If I had nothing to do and I wanted to sit in a dark room and relax, I could at times. But to be busy is very nice. To have things to do and have a schedule.

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#23. I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.

Chael Sonnen

#24. As a professional athlete, I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before. And not one of them has ever hurt me in a fist-fight, either. The only thing that has helped me is my skills and the only thing that hurt me is my opponent's skills.

Chael Sonnen

#25. You've got to listen to your body, notice some trends in yourself and do the best you can to be ready when a finish line approaches.

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#26. Whether I want to be at practice or not, I show up every day. Whether I'm healthy or I'm sick or hurt or tired, I show up every day.

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#27. When I was young they used to call me 'The Foreman,' not because I was in charge but because I did the work of four men.

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#28. If Michael Bisping ever addresses me in a public comment again, I will bury him where he stands.

Chael Sonnen

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

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#30. When Anderson walks into a room, you can hear a rat pissing on cotton.

Chael Sonnen