Big Quote by Tony Bellew

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

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

— Jose Aldo

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

— Artem Lobov

To be honest, I don't spar a whole lot. I do hit a lot of pads and spar a little bit, I just don't…

— Matt Hughes

I got thrown into the lion's den when I got to Alpha Male. My first sparring session was with Joe Benavidez, Chad Mendes and…

— T.J. Dillashaw

You try to make your sparring sessions as realistic as possible.

— Benson Henderson

I am always in the gym sparring. I look at every fight kind of like a sparring match.

— Chris Weidman

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

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 do much less sparring and always with the purpose of working on something in particular.

— Bernard Hopkins

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