Fitness Quote by Chris Eubank Jr

For my whole career, I didn't have sparring partners. I was frustrated when I came to the UFC because, after a few minutes of…

— Mirko Cro Cop

The first couple events I fought in, I was a little nervous, but nothing serious. My training never consisted of any sparring back then,…

— Dan Henderson

I'm always training, but preparing for a fight is different. You do different exercises and all that.

— Brandon Moreno

I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

We always train with heavier sparring partners to make it harder so the fight will be easier.

— Jose Aldo

There's a very big difference between being fit and being fight fit. Sparring is the only way to get fight fit. It's a very…

— Chris Eubank Jr

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

The way I got into fighting was that my brother was training in MMA, and he'd been wanting to introduce me to his new…

— Khalil Rountree Jr

I trained for about a year before I had my first amateur fight. I won by knockout, and then, for my second fight, the…

— Stipe Miocic

With my style, training is very rigorous. You're toe-to-toe, getting beat on six days a week for five or six weeks leading to a…

— Tommy Morrison

I had 14 amateur fights, and I went out there and knocked a lot of them out. Trainingwise, we would pretty much just spar.

— Sean O'Malley

I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners…

— Alexis Arguello