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" 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

Victory

" Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward. "

" I want to earn a top-contender status in the UFC, so I have to fight the best. "

" I don't need MMA, but I love fighting. Those are very different things. "

" I'm a Christian, and I give the glory to God. "

" 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. "

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

" When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it's kinda cute... A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don't. It's not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do. "

" 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. "

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

" Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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 have no problem putting on a kit, carrying a big sniper rifle, and running a few thousand meters. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" I really want to demonstrate I'm not to be overlooked anymore. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "