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" It's MMA - anything can happen. You can throw a punch from one knee, a punch from anywhere. "
Eddie Alvarez
You
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MMA
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" I won my first 10 fights by knockout. The money was getting larger at the same time. "
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" I have a very good ground game and very good wrestling. People just underestimate it. That's it. I want to keep it like that. "
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" I've been fighting the best guys, so I would like a gimme fight. "
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" When I fought Nick Thompson, I wasn't experienced enough. That was the first person that put me in a real fight. Before Nick, nobody had put me in a fight where I had to struggle. "
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" Having your worst nightmares kind of come true is truly liberating. "
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" You don't want to be in a fight of the year. It takes years off your life. But, it's why fans tune in; it's why people gravitate toward your fights. It's why people want to watch you fight. It's important to get into them, but it's important to try not to get into too many of them. "
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" I'm a little unconventional; I do things a little differently. "
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Things
" I enjoy fights the most once them nerves go away and you settle into the fight. That's when you can have your fun and be creative and just kind of be yourself. "
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" Regardless of the magnitude, the crowd, or the pay-per-view sales, the goal is to beat the guy in front of me. "
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Beat
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" I've experienced success, I've experienced failure, I've been a world champion, I've fought all over the world; I think I've experienced enough that I won't get in front of a million people and get gunshy. "
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People
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" If I can put the right guy with the right mouthpiece in front of the right opponents, we can build a champion, but he doesn't really have to beat the best guys; we just have to give him the right matchups. "
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Build
Champion
Him
" If you're not successful at a certain weight, it rarely has anything to do with gaining or losing 10 pounds. It's something inside of you that you need to fix in order to win. It rarely has anything to do with cutting 10 pounds. "
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Need
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" We got four-ounce gloves here. It's not hard to knock someone out. "
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Out
Knock
Got
" The fighters and the fights are what makes UFC great. "
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Great
UFC
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" Where in normal neighborhoods, they would play stick ball and hockey and baseball, we used to slap box and bring boxing gloves down the street and box each other. "
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Hockey
Street
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" I want to prove the naysayers wrong. They're everywhere. And to be honest with you, they're all I see, and they're what motivates me. "
Eddie Alvarez
Prove
See
You
" Conor McGregor - this guy is so offensive minded and never on the defense that whenever you put him on the defense, he gets so flustered and so upset. "
Eddie Alvarez
Defense
Never
Upset
" I have a tremendous support from a lot of the Underground fans. They believe in me, they want to see me do well, and they're behind me. But there are a lot of people out there who don't believe it, and so I want to separate perception and reality. I want to be able to do that. "
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" Me? I'm no sob story. I get paid well, and I live comfortably. "
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" Although I'm shorter, all of my weight I carry in my back and my butt. That's where most of my weight is. "
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Back
Butt
" I had to fight Donald Cerrone, Anthony Pettis, Gil Melendez, Rafael Dos Anjos. I had to fight these guys in order to prove myself in order to get a title shot. "
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Fight
Title
" I've knocked a ton of guys out. I know the power I have and the advantages I have against the best in the world. "
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" I think sports is a quest to find out what really is - not what perceptions are. "
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Sports
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" The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It's about what's inside - what really is inside. "
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" I started this fight career with one objective. When I step inside a ring or an octagon, it is to beat the guy in front of me. "
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Fight
Me
" There's not a single strike that good preparation can't negate. "
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Preparation
Good
Strike
" I can walk into a restaurant and knock five guys out, become 5-0 real quick. It's about the quality of opponent. You have to beat the right guys to call yourself the No. 1 contender. "
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" Going in there just to win and put on a boring fight, I don't want to be related to anything like that. "
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