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" I want to earn a top-contender status in the UFC, so I have to fight the best. "
Tim Kennedy
Earn
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UFC
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" 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
" Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time. "
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Special
Time
Peace
" 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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" I remember every moment of every gunfight I've ever been in. "
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I Remember
Remember
Moment
" 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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Hard
Day
" 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. "
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Mistakes
Try
Not Perfect
" 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
" 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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Strength
Back
Transition
" 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. "
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Alone
Trust
Team
" I think the most rewarding thing is going over and being deployed and having done meaningful things. "
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Over
Think
Done
" I freaking hate liars. "
Tim Kennedy
Liars
Hate
" You're always going to get an honest, straightforward response from me. Honest to a fault. "
Tim Kennedy
Me
Always
Fault
" There are some parallels between 'Zombieland' and 'Range 15,' except 'Zombieland,' with Woody Harrelson, there's this pleasurable fun in every scene. "
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Every
Except
Some
" 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
" 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
" Find something bigger than yourself and pour every ounce of who you are into it. If that's your family, be the best father on Earth. If you are a cop, firefighter, or a trash man, be the best. "
Tim Kennedy
Yourself
Best
Family
" 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 have a pretty amazing life. Even back-to-back deployments - Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey - it's still pretty rewarding. "
Tim Kennedy
Life
Pakistan
Pretty
" 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
" My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of. "
Tim Kennedy
Horror
Movies
Life
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class. "
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World
Leaving
Fighter
" 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. "
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Time
Eating
School
" 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
" MMA in an individual sport, and you're just pushing yourself to be as dangerous as you can be in 15 minutes. "
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Dangerous
You
Yourself
" 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. "
Tim Kennedy
Evil
Believe
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