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" I know I'm not a marquee name, and I'm looked past by most guys. "
Tim Kennedy
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" I'm competitive when I fight, but I don't get emotionally involved. "
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" I think the most rewarding thing is going over and being deployed and having done meaningful things. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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Day
Train
" 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. "
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Back
Transition
" I'm the guy that is always in shape. "
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Always
" 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. "
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Goals
Feeling
" 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. "
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World
See
" 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. "
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You
Referee
Out
" 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. "
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Freedom
Day
Me
" You should be falling asleep before your head hits the pillow because you worked so hard every moment of the day. "
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Falling
Hard
Day
" Watching everybody have such a fantastic time, loving life, loving America - I wish that was the feeling year-round, that it didn't take the Fourth of July for us to be like, 'Yeah, America is awesome.' "
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Time
Life
America
" I have no problem putting on a kit, carrying a big sniper rifle, and running a few thousand meters. "
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Big
Running
Rifle
" I want to thank the military community for their support. I'll never be able to explain how much you motivated me and how much I always tried to make you proud. "
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Support
Proud
Want
" 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. "
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Evil
Believe
America
" I freaking hate liars. "
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Liars
Hate
" I'm an eight-year Green Beret, Ranger, sniper. "
Tim Kennedy
Ranger
Green
" When 9/11 happened, I was like, 'I gotta do something.' I went and talked to the recruiters, and I found out about the Special Forces 18X program. They take qualified people off the street, and they give them a shot at Special Forces. I was like, 'So I could go try out for Special Forces?' "
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Special
Street
Try
" I'm endorsing Col. Maness for United States Senate because of his deeply held commitment to the constitutional rights and principles our nation was founded upon. "
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Principles
Rights
Nation
" I love to deadlift, and it's a huge part of my training because it works every muscle in the body. "
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Training
Because
Muscle
" 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. "
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Time
Lost
You
" 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. "
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Respect
Special
Negative
" I'm the guy that once graduated Ranger School - a place that starves you and denies you sleep for over two months - and took a fight six days later in the IFL and won. "
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Fight
You
Two
" I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff. "
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Daily
Earth
Last
" You could waterboard me for days - for years - and I would still be cracking jokes about how bad Rachel Maddow is. "
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Jokes
Me
Days
" 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. "
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Four
Fight
Pathetic
" 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. "
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Look
Same
You
" People want to hear what I do with Special Forces, as a ranger, as a sniper. And I'm like 'What does that have to do with fighting?' Let's talk about fighting. They couldn't be more different; there's nothing similar about them. "
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Special
Fighting
Nothing
" 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. "
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Great
Me
Victory