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" 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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" 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. "

Tim Kennedy

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Fighting

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" MMA in an individual sport, and you're just pushing yourself to be as dangerous as you can be in 15 minutes. "

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

" Carlos Condit does the best job of being the counterstriking guy that is very elusive. "

" I remember every moment of every gunfight I've ever been in. "

" 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. "

" My military service has nothing to do with what I do in the ring. "

" 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'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. "

" 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 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. "

" I'm against torture. I'm also against terrorism. "

" You could waterboard me for days - for years - and I would still be cracking jokes about how bad Rachel Maddow is. "

Tim Kennedy

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" I am a nice guy. I love having a good time. I love cooking. I love hanging out with my friends. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Tim Kennedy

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" 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 love fighting and will always have the heart of a fighter. "

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

" I've fought guys that I like. When you're fighting a guy that you don't like, you have to be able to separate certain aspects of it. "

" 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. "

" I love to deadlift, and it's a huge part of my training because it works every muscle in the body. "

" What's the definition of terrorism? It's to achieve an objective through the use of force and fear. These are just nasty, evil, disgusting human beings who disrespect human life. "

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

" I hit hard, and I'm hard to take down. "

" 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. "

Tim Kennedy

Freedom

Day

" I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not hard to find unless you're ISIS - then, it's a rough night. "