Alpha Quote by T.J. Dillashaw

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 bring in the hardest sparring partners you can imagine and I'm going through the guys.

— Artem Lobov

Even before my first fights in the UFC, I hadn't sparred before. We just hit pads and bags, and started.

— Dan Henderson

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

I had the greatest sparring partners, I had the greatest sparring team. And these guys they wrapped me up a lot. I never got…

— Michael Spinks

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've trained hundreds of hundreds of rounds of sparring at American Top Team.

— Colby Covington

Now I am training with sparring partners who are nice people, sure, but not my friends. These are sparring partners who want to knock…

— Mirko Cro Cop

I've mixed sparring partners up. I've done tons upon tons of rounds with big, heavy lumps who are trying to take my head off.

— Tony Bellew

Have I been overly aggressive in some sparring sessions? Yes, I have. There's things, there's punches and things I've thrown that's been too aggressive…

— T.J. Dillashaw

I was sparring with Dan Christison, a big heavyweight. I threw a leg kick and broke my fibula. Before the Florian training camp.

— Diego Sanchez

Honestly, I'm destroying people in sparring, but for some reason I haven't been able to show my full potential in the UFC.

— Artem Lobov