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" I got my hand slapped for talking about fighter pay. That was a big one. I had Dana White yell at me in front of, like, 20 other fighters. "
Tim Kennedy
Hand
Like
Me
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" I'm not perfect - I'm human, and I can make mistakes - but I'm always going to fight clean; I'm always going to go out there and try to put on a good show. "
Tim Kennedy
Mistakes
Try
Not Perfect
" If we are ever going to rescue our nation from selfish entitlement, political correctness, and collectivism, we must start sending citizen-statesman warriors to fight for us in Washington, and I believe Col. Maness will do just that. "
Tim Kennedy
Fight
Believe
Will
" I make, like, three or four times more when I don't fight than when I do fight. And, I'm one of the higher-paid guys in the UFC, which is remarkably tragic and pathetic. "
Tim Kennedy
Four
Fight
Pathetic
" I don't need MMA, but I love fighting. Those are very different things. "
Tim Kennedy
Need
Things
Different
" I want to thank all of my opponents. Iron sharpens iron, and every great victory or crushing defeat occurred because there was someone who trained hard and had the courage to meet me across the cage. "
Tim Kennedy
Great
Me
Victory
" You should be falling asleep before your head hits the pillow because you worked so hard every moment of the day. "
Tim Kennedy
Falling
Hard
Day
" I love to deadlift, and it's a huge part of my training because it works every muscle in the body. "
Tim Kennedy
Training
Because
Muscle
" I am a nice guy. I love having a good time. I love cooking. I love hanging out with my friends. "
Tim Kennedy
Time
Cooking
Friends
" I was deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq with British Special Forces Units. I have great respect for the British military and the country as a whole, so I don't have anything negative to say about that. "
Tim Kennedy
Respect
Special
Negative
" I remember every moment of every gunfight I've ever been in. "
Tim Kennedy
I Remember
Remember
Moment
" MMA in an individual sport, and you're just pushing yourself to be as dangerous as you can be in 15 minutes. "
Tim Kennedy
Dangerous
You
Yourself
" 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. "
Tim Kennedy
You
Referee
Out
" 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
Me
My Time
People
" 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. "
Tim Kennedy
Alone
Trust
Team
" When you're in Ranger School, it sucks. You're not eating; you're not sleeping. You're marching miles - for months at a time. It's horrible. "
Tim Kennedy
Time
Eating
School
" You could waterboard me for days - for years - and I would still be cracking jokes about how bad Rachel Maddow is. "
Tim Kennedy
Jokes
Me
Days
" I dominated Michael Bisping. "
Tim Kennedy
Dominated
Michael
" 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. "
Tim Kennedy
Love
Religion
Justice
" 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
" No matter what I do, it's all about the workouts. When I travel, I make sure I get my workout in first. When I'm in camp for a fight, I don't travel at all, and I train three times a day. The secret is to just keep working. "
Tim Kennedy
Travel
Day
Train
" I'm a Christian, and I give the glory to God. "
Tim Kennedy
Christian
God
Glory
" My military service has nothing to do with what I do in the ring. "
Tim Kennedy
Nothing
Ring
Service
" 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. "
Tim Kennedy
Complaining
World
See
" I'm the guy that is always in shape. "
Tim Kennedy
Shape
Guy
Always
" Michael Bisping, we had a five round battle. I beat him for five rounds and tripled the amount of strikes landed. I landed more take-downs in that fight than had been landed on him in his entire career. "
Tim Kennedy
Beat
Battle
Fight
" I'm very disciplined in the approach I take for my training. "
Tim Kennedy
Very
Training
Take
" I will always have that, 'I want to be the best fighter on the planet' thing in me. "
Tim Kennedy
Want
Will
Me
" If you've been hit, if you've been put down, if you've lost, that next time you come out, you have to make a testament: you have to make a demonstration, a showing, that it's not going to happen again. "
Tim Kennedy
Time
Lost
You
" My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of. "
Tim Kennedy
Horror
Movies
Life
" I hit hard, and I'm hard to take down. "
Tim Kennedy
Down
Hard
Hit