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Wrestling Quotes by Chael Sonnen

61 Wrestling quotes by Chael Sonnen

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Chael Sonnen talks about confidence and belief in winning. He points out how wrestling technique, like takedowns and posture, differs from MMA. He also shares advice on training, saying boxing and kickboxing defense matter. He even jokes about fighting Anderson Silva being like eating Chinese food, and mentions that media avoidance can shape a career.

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I think I can beat any man.

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I want to make the UFC money.

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Anderson isn't qualified to make Frank Mir a sandwich

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The UFC does not owe me a thing. Nothing. I am in debt to them.

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Georges St-Pierre is the greatest fighter to have ever done it.

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I'm not after the money or the fame. I'm after the world championship, and that's it.

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I've competitively boxed. It's definitely Plan B for me, but I know how to box.

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Nobody wants to fight Brian Stann. I'm not the only guy, and that's not a big secret.

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Cain Velasquez, for my money, is the most intimidating force ever in heavyweight combat.

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I've had a lot of fights, and they haven't all gone my way.

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GSP is good, but don't get me wrong he better stay at 170 with the other midgetts.

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I'm a wrestler, so I'm used to not being paid, and I'm used to doing five or six competitions a day and…

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The only thing more embellished than Floyd Mayweather's pay-per-view buys is Floyd Mayweather's net worth. But his spending habits are real.

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Jon Jones' skill set is unique. Jon Jones goes out there and does video game moves that the announcers can't even call…

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There's a camaraderie that comes with this sport, but fighting Anderson Silva is a lot like eating Chinese food: twenty minutes after…

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Werdum's open to being knocked out in any fight because he's so reckless, but that's also what makes him so damn dynamic.

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Machida is not a bad guy; he's a victim of the brazilian education system. There are better ways to get electrolytes than…

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Wanderlei Silva, six feet tall and 205 pounds, boy, until I met you, I didn’t know they could stack crap that high,

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You tell Anderson Silva that I'm coming over and I'm kicking down his backdoor and patting his little lady on the ass…

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As a professional athlete, I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in…

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Very normal trajectory of a fighter's career - you start out fighting at the YMCA. You move on to the dog park.…

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Nobody breaks in a fight and comes back in the same fight. Once you break, you're done for the night. You've gotta…

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I go to a wrestling match, and I love it. But at a wrestling match, on every level - that includes Division…

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One element of wrestling that I know what I grew up with we put a lot of emphasis towards was the takedown.…

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I should be the reigning champion. I punch a guy 300 times, he punches me a couple and they call him the…

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As soon as you start to get tired, as soon as you start to get behind, as soon as your coach starts…

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It doesn't matter if I'm a rival of Anderson Silva's or not; I'm also very objective. And I'm not going to take…

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If Brock Lesnar was here right now, I'd take my boot off and throw it at him, and he'd better polish it…

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Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

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The fight takes 15 minutes. The build-up takes 90 days. It takes that for a reason.

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I've got two 10-8 rounds against Anderson Silva. That's just the truth. I have no equal at middleweight.

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If Michael Bisping ever addresses me in a public comment again, I will bury him where he stands.

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I love going to the ring hurt or sick or tired and trying to figure out how to win anyway.

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Ronda's a very basic and straightforward fighter. However, she's a masterful competitor.

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Brock Lesnar made a career out of refusing to do media and not being accessible.

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Jose Aldo, this guy's a chicken. I can't even tell you how good Jose Aldo is, but he doesn't think it.

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A Black Belt under the Nogueira Brothers is like saying I got a free toy in my happy meal

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I thought if you tapped out, you lost the round. Come to find out, you actually lose the fight.

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For me, and people like me, fighting isn't what we do; it's who we are.

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If you call a Brazilian out publicly, you're going to be fighting that Brazilian. That's in their culture.

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I don't walk around looking into cameras and telling people I'm the best fighter in the world just to hear myself talk. I say…

My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was it?' They…

I'm a God-fearing man, go to church every Sunday, and have since I was a boy. But if I ever found out that God…

Because of both hipster culture and Facebook culture, the human race is starting to resemble a school of hairy piranhas.

I didn't get to go to school functions growing up. I didn't get to go to dances. I was never invited to a party…

I go to practice every day. I really don't have a training camp. In the boxing world, and that's where that came from, almost…

I had dreams in 2000 of being an Olympian for boxing. I never talk about it.

Every time you have a huge fight in wrestling, in boxing, in MMA, both guys are sure they're going to win. They really believe…

There's a camaraderie that comes with this sport, but fighting Anderson Silva is a lot like eating Chinese food: twenty minutes after I do…

I was in Las Vegas when the Nogueira brothers first touched down in America. There was a bus, this is a true story. There…

One element of wrestling that I know what I grew up with we put a lot of emphasis towards was the takedown. But, you…

I go to practice each and every day, but my intensity is not the same. If I get tired, I'll go sit down. If…

If I was mentoring a young fighter, I'd tell him to spend more time on boxing. That doesn't mean I would ignore kickboxing -…

Somebody is going to win & somebody is not, and that's fine... But we will never refuse to participate because we're scared to fail.

I want to make the UFC money.

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