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" 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
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" 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. "
Tim Kennedy
Support
Proud
Want
" I'm an eight-year Green Beret, Ranger, sniper. "
Tim Kennedy
Ranger
Green
" 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. "
Tim Kennedy
Me
Do The Right Thing
I Am
" Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class. "
Tim Kennedy
World
Leaving
Fighter
" 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'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
" I'm very disciplined in the approach I take for my training. "
Tim Kennedy
Very
Training
Take
" 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. "
Tim Kennedy
Principles
Rights
Nation
" 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 want to earn a top-contender status in the UFC, so I have to fight the best. "
Tim Kennedy
Earn
Want
UFC
" 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 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
" 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
" 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?' "
Tim Kennedy
Special
Street
Try
" 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.' "
Tim Kennedy
Time
Life
America
" I will always have that, 'I want to be the best fighter on the planet' thing in me. "
Tim Kennedy
Want
Will
Me
" 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
" My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of. "
Tim Kennedy
Horror
Movies
Life
" 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 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. "
Tim Kennedy
Gun
Goals
Feeling
" 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. "
Tim Kennedy
Fight
You
Two
" My military service has nothing to do with what I do in the ring. "
Tim Kennedy
Nothing
Ring
Service
" 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
" You're always going to get an honest, straightforward response from me. Honest to a fault. "
Tim Kennedy
Me
Always
Fault
" 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. "
Tim Kennedy
Look
Same
You
" 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. "
Tim Kennedy
Love
American Dream
People
" I'm against torture. I'm also against terrorism. "
Tim Kennedy
Terrorism
Also
Against
" 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
" Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward. "
Tim Kennedy
Finding
Courage
Coward