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" I hate hearing in a UFC corner, 'You won the first four rounds; just stay away from him this round.' "
Chuck Liddell
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" I don't think the itch to fight has ever left me, ever. I mean, I got paid to do what I love for a living, and I got paid very well to do it. So that's going to always be there. That's always going to be like, 'Man, I wouldn't mind getting out there again.' "
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" I never expected it, but I've gotten paid a lot to do what I love. There are no complaints. "
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" I do genuinely dislike Tito Ortiz, and I don't have anything to prove to him. "
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" Someone said Anderson Silva and GSP would be a $12 million fight. I told people that for $12 million, I'd fight them both right now. At the same time. People took that as 'He's going to fight again.' It was a joke. But if you came up with $12 million, yeah, of course I will fight again. "
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" If you watch fights cage-side, sometimes different punches look better than others. It's like camera angles. Sometimes some punches look a lot better than they were, and sometimes a solid punch doesn't look good. So it just depends on your angle. "
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" I'm not an emotional fighter. "
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" I did well in school, was the captain of the wrestling team and the football team, and always got along well with people, so I'm sure I would have gotten a job in the real world. I probably wouldn't have liked that, though. "
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" I put myself through college. "
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" It's hard for me to fake smile. I personally think I look stupid fake smiling. "
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" With the fights I have lost, I always want another shot and think that I can beat them. "
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" I'm one of those guys: I'm out there trying to punch you out and to hurt you, but as soon as I'm done, hopefully there's nothing wrong with you; I'm hoping that you're okay. "
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" A lot of people are blowing Shogun's fight with Mark Coleman out of proportion. He was coming off an injury, and he gassed early on in his first fight back. "
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" It's a very complex sport, so judging is going to be very complex, too. And not everyone is going to agree all the time on who wins a fight. "
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" I'm probably not going to be popular with the fighters with this one, but my biggest problem is guys playing it safe. I understand it from a coach's standpoint and a manager's standpoint. I understand why you'd want to play it safe and want to win the fight, win every fight. I get it. "
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" You can actually find a lot of gyms that do teach mixed martial arts. But it's just like with any martial art - you've got to look at the coaches, go watch some classes, see how people treat each other and how the coaches treat the students. "
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" Mixed martial arts is great, and it's here to stay. "
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" It's one of those things: I'm never gonna get over not fighting, I don't think, but I'm content with my decision to retire. "
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" My style of fighting is to go down and trying to finish the guy and trying to end fights, not laying up because I'm winning the fight, just keep going after it. "
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" I was the guy that would cram for everything, so I guess I was a bit of a slacker. I was a procrastinator. I spent a lot of all-nighters getting ready for tests. "
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" It's hard for an athlete to quit what he's done his whole life. "
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" Dancing is a lot lower-impact than ultimate fighting, but it takes a lot longer, and I burn the same amount of calories. "
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" We run on the beach some days, and others, we run hills behind the gym. We also do several hours of grappling each week as mixed with some intense cardio in the ring. "
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" I tried in my career to be really good to fans. "
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