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Rashad Evans

(1979) Mixed Martial Arts Fighter United States

119 quotes in 438 categories

Fighting felt like everything to him, even more than life itself. He says true wealth isn’t money or toys but the joy of pushing past comfort zones and learning from hard fights. He calls his mother a hero, talks about training harder than a bout, and believes everyone is a fighter in some arena.

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Rashad Evans is a mixed martial arts fighter from the United States.

Quick Facts About Rashad Evans

Born: September 25, 1979
Nationality: United States
Profession: Mixed Martial Arts Fighter

About Rashad Evans

Rashad Evans is an American retired mixed‑martial artist who competed in the Light Heavyweight division. He began his professional MMA career in 2003, won the Heavyweight tournament on The Ultimate Fighter 2 in 2005, captured the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship in 2008, and was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2019.

Quotes by Rashad Evans

I was a rowdy boy growing up.

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Getting the title shot was huge.

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I'm the guy that everybody wants to hate.

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I like getting booed.

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I want to train with whoever is the best.

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

Care

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To live is to fight. We just fight in different arenas.

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I enjoy the whole aspect of training with different people.

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

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

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As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.

Athlete

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

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Being relaxed allowed me to fight the way I'm capable of fighting.

Being

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Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.

Chicago

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Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.

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

Amazing

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I wanted to play football, and my football coach told me if I wanted to be a football player, I should wrestle.…

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And at the end of the day as an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.

Athlete

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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…

Comfort zone

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

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I've had some real hard setbacks in this sport and I learned to realize that you can't really build who you are…

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It's like when your parents tell you what to do, but it's not until you go through it yourself that you see…

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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…

Coaching

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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…

Change

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Before a fight I'm always afraid... before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try…

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There's a lot of reasons I didn't perform the way I could have in college. Going to college, I was a new…

College

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The hardest thing in the world is to watch someone you love really not be able to get themselves together and really…

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

Cybersecurity

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It's about feeling alive in the moment because your adrenaline is going, your thinking about that present moment, you're not somewhere else,…

Adrenaline

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

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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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Coming into community college, I wasn't sure of where I wanted to go in my future.

College

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Life is a celebration… I try to enjoy it as much as possible.

Birthday

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I try to stay away from high sodium and high sugar.

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

Heart

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I definitely think you should have wrestling in schools.

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The only way I'm going out is unconscious. I'm not a quitter.

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When you violate a pact, there's no way I can ever work with you again.

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