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" Everyone knows who I am; everyone respects me as a shooter, as an operator, as a soldier... I'm always truthful, I'm always honest, and I'm always trying to do the right thing. "

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" That's part of my military character, I think. You back one of us into a corner, and you can only expect one thing: us coming at you like wild, rabid dogs. "

Tim Kennedy

Dogs

Think

You

" Carlos Condit does the best job of being the counterstriking guy that is very elusive. "

" I'm against torture. I'm also against terrorism. "

" Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time. "

" I remember every moment of every gunfight I've ever been in. "

" I freaking hate liars. "

Tim Kennedy

Liars

Hate

" I will always have that, 'I want to be the best fighter on the planet' thing in me. "

Tim Kennedy

Want

Will

" It's a good thing I have another job because the UFC doesn't pay very well. "

" Who would I be to be cowering to a bunch of gutless cowards acting like a bunch of tough guys online? "

Tim Kennedy

Online

Tough

" Find something bigger than yourself and pour every ounce of who you are into it. If that's your family, be the best father on Earth. If you are a cop, firefighter, or a trash man, be the best. "

" I love the idea of what America is. America is a bunch of people that do these incredible, thankless, selfless jobs that nobody really knows about that makes that American dream possible. "

" You're always going to get an honest, straightforward response from me. Honest to a fault. "

Tim Kennedy

Always

Fault

" I know I'm not a marquee name, and I'm looked past by most guys. "

" I love to deadlift, and it's a huge part of my training because it works every muscle in the body. "

" If Katie Couric or Anderson Cooper asked me to come on to their shows and give them content every single day, I would do it because that gives me access to a huge population of people that I can hopefully, in some way, plant seeds in fertile soil, and those seeds would grow into oak trees of freedom. "

Tim Kennedy

Freedom

Day

" Fighting is a lonely thing. You train with your team. You bleed with them. You trust your coaches, but ultimately, you are in the cage alone. "

" Kettlebells are the best for everything. We do snatches and swings with them for explosiveness and hamstring and lower back strength, and we'll also throw them into conditioning circuits where I'll do a burpee holding the kettlebells and transition into a 2-handed snatch. "

" You should be falling asleep before your head hits the pillow because you worked so hard every moment of the day. "

" Fighting is a very independent thing, and it's not a team sport, and it's not the NFL, you know, because we don't have to look the same. "

" I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband. "

" I always have that nagging feeling of wanting to go back and getting my long gun back and be a sniper on a Special Forces ODA, which is the greatest job in the world, but I have some goals in MMA that I set out to do, and I'm not going to stop until I get them. "

" I wish that everyone that's complaining about how things are here would shut their mouth for a little bit, go around the world and see how it is everywhere else. "

" I'm very disciplined in the approach I take for my training. "

" I've been part of task forces hunting the most evil humans to walk the face of this planet. I believe all of that was for a reason, because I love America. "

" I will always be fighting in one form or another until the day I die. "

" I think the most rewarding thing is going over and being deployed and having done meaningful things. "

" MMA has a referee, and you're wearing gloves. I'm in there with another volunteering participant that's out there to win some prize money. "

" I've been to Afghanistan and Iraq a few times, and then I've done deployments elsewhere - with Special Forces, we go all over the place. "

" The people that are close to me, the people that I spend most of my time with, they're all really like-minded people. "

Tim Kennedy

My Time

People

" My military service has nothing to do with what I do in the ring. "