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Wrestling Quotes by Rashad Evans

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Rashad Evans once said fighting felt like everything, pushing life to the side. He stresses that comfort must be left behind in the UFC, that title chances are rare, and that stepping into the cage creates a split personality. He also notes he won’t fight teammates, keeping personal bonds separate from competition.

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I've trained with real, world-class wrestlers.

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The UFC is not a place for the feint of heart.

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I definitely think you should have wrestling in schools.

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Wrestling is one of the earliest and oldest martial arts there is.

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MMA was love at fight sight. I felt like I was born to do it.

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I want to train with whoever is the best.

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Eric Knuutila had a big impact on my wrestling career.

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Only thing I care about, the only thing I think about is the fight in front of me.

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Sometimes it doesn't always say Niagara Falls there, but you better believe, I represent Niagara Falls every time I step in the…

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But if you look at a fight, it is anything but comfortable. So when you're fighting tough guys and you're not willing…

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I don't fight to prove that I'm tough, I know I'm tough. I fight because it's inside of me.

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I pretty much focus on all the main styles out there, karate, wrestling, boxing, jiujitsu, just pretty much anything within MMA.

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I feel like I can beat Jon Jones. I see some things in his game that I can capitalize on.

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Being a great fighter is having a perfect balance of having that toughness, skill, as well as that mental capability to be…

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If you fight a hungry fighter and you look into their eyes and you're not as hungry as they are, that's when…

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Yeah, I miss that feeling of knocking somebody clean out. There's nothing like it when you go into a fight and you…

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It was really difficult being away from MMA because it's been a way of life for me for 13 years. But being…

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Everyone's talking about Phil Davis and what he did in college. It's an accomplishment to win an NCAA title. I don't want…

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All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks...When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the…

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Eric Knuutila was one of those coaches who I could tell who cared, who went the extra mile, who made sure that…

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For me I think the pressure Chael Sonnen brings is hard to match with his offense, takedowns, ground and pound, hand in…

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I didn't really realize that I could make it into a career until midway through the 'Ultimate Fighter' show when I started…

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I believe I can beat Anderson Silva, and I believe that the skills that I have is something he'd have hard time…

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I'm a UFC fighter, a macho-type sport. I am a heterosexual guy in a tough macho sport, which is exactly the reason…

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I'm always interested to watch Chris Leben fight. He just fights from a different place.

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You know, MMA doesn't need New York, New York needs MMA. And I say that with all due respect to New York.

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You can have the best college wrestling in the world, but you can have terrible MMA wrestling.

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For the last 14 years or so, I've been a fighter for so long I kind of forgot what it's like to…

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I will always find something to challenge myself. I will go up to heavyweight or down to middleweight.

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Rampage's footwork is atrocious. His boxing is slipping. He doesn't take the fight game seriously.

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MMA embodies a lot of disciplines of sports with footwork and with football, especially with the punching technique you get the hand…

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Having a chance to fight for a title is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and I consider myself to be very lucky that I…

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I won't fight Thiago Silva. I won't fight Cezar 'Mutante' Ferreira. I won't fight anybody who I train with.

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When I go in and fight, I'm not the same guy who is sitting in front of you, who is meeting the…

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At one point in my life, I felt as if fighting was everything. It was everything. I put life second.

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One thing you understand quickly as a fighter is that you're not punching with eight or 10 oz. Gloves. We've got 4…

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I remember the first time I fought somebody with a name and that was Tito Ortiz. I didn't start fighting until like…

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I'm open to fighting at 185 or 205 pounds, but I think I need to give this 185-pound run a real, honest…

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I took so many years off my fighting career arguing with Dana, trying to get a fight with Shogun Rua, not trying…

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If you grow up with a wrestling coach, you learn differently. If you were late, everything was about push-ups and laps around…

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At one point in my life, I felt as if fighting was everything. It was everything. I put life second.

True wealth is not measured by how much money you've got in the bank or how many toys you've got. Some of the happiest…

But if you look at a fight, it is anything but comfortable. So when you're fighting tough guys and you're not willing to go…

My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life…

If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going…

Yeah, I like going away for camp. It brings out the savagery.

To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.

We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we…

I got Rampage's style down so good I am even wearing my dog's chain!

Ring rust is real. I've experienced it myself.

When I'm training for a fight, I'm not the same person that I normally am when I'm at home. I'm always thinking about fighting.…

I was just so rambunctious as a little kid. It started because I hung out with my older brothers and their friends. I always…

The UFC is not a place for the feint of heart.

I had just graduated from Michigan State and I was working at a hospital. I was a security guard, I worked at night. Part…

I give a lot of credit to my training partners and to my coaches. Both Greg Jackson and Michael Winklejohn are amazing.