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I love fighting and will always have the heart of a fighter.
Tim Kennedy
I will always be fighting in one form or another until the day I die.
I dominated Michael Bisping.
I'm a Christian, and I give the glory to God.
My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.
I don't need MMA, but I love fighting. Those are very different things.
I hate it when anyone in the gym can deadlift more than me.
If you've been hit, if you've been put down, if you've lost, that next time you come out, you have to make a testament: you have to make a demonstration, a showing, that it's not going to happen again.
Everyone knows who I am; everyone respects me as a shooter, as an operator, as a soldier... I'm always truthful, I'm always honest, and I'm always trying to do the right thing.
I'm competitive when I fight, but I don't get emotionally involved.
Who would I be to be cowering to a bunch of gutless cowards acting like a bunch of tough guys online?
Michael Bisping, we had a five round battle. I beat him for five rounds and tripled the amount of strikes landed. I landed more take-downs in that fight than had been landed on him in his entire career.
Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class.
When 9/11 happened, I was like, 'I gotta do something.' I went and talked to the recruiters, and I found out about the Special Forces 18X program. They take qualified people off the street, and they give them a shot at Special Forces. I was like, 'So I could go try out for Special Forces?'
Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time.
If we are ever going to rescue our nation from selfish entitlement, political correctness, and collectivism, we must start sending citizen-statesman warriors to fight for us in Washington, and I believe Col. Maness will do just that.
When you're in Ranger School, it sucks. You're not eating; you're not sleeping. You're marching miles - for months at a time. It's horrible.
If Katie Couric or Anderson Cooper asked me to come on to their shows and give them content every single day, I would do it because that gives me access to a huge population of people that I can hopefully, in some way, plant seeds in fertile soil, and those seeds would grow into oak trees of freedom.
I'm not perfect - I'm human, and I can make mistakes - but I'm always going to fight clean; I'm always going to go out there and try to put on a good show.
It's a good thing I have another job because the UFC doesn't pay very well.
I'm very disciplined in the approach I take for my training.
You should be falling asleep before your head hits the pillow because you worked so hard every moment of the day.
What's the definition of terrorism? It's to achieve an objective through the use of force and fear. These are just nasty, evil, disgusting human beings who disrespect human life.
I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.
I will always have that, 'I want to be the best fighter on the planet' thing in me.
I've fought guys that I like. When you're fighting a guy that you don't like, you have to be able to separate certain aspects of it.
I'm against torture. I'm also against terrorism.
There are some parallels between 'Zombieland' and 'Range 15', except 'Zombieland', with Woody Harrelson, there's this pleasurable fun in every scene.
I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband.
I always have that nagging feeling of wanting to go back and getting my long gun back and be a sniper on a Special Forces ODA, which is the greatest job in the world, but I have some goals in MMA that I set out to do, and I'm not going to stop until I get them.
MMA in an individual sport, and you're just pushing yourself to be as dangerous as you can be in 15 minutes.
Find something bigger than yourself and pour every ounce of who you are into it. If that's your family, be the best father on Earth. If you are a cop, firefighter, or a trash man, be the best.
Fighting is a very independent thing, and it's not a team sport, and it's not the NFL, you know, because we don't have to look the same.
You're always going to get an honest, straightforward response from me. Honest to a fault.
I really want to demonstrate I'm not to be overlooked anymore.
Watching everybody have such a fantastic time, loving life, loving America - I wish that was the feeling year-round, that it didn't take the Fourth of July for us to be like, 'Yeah, America is awesome.'
I want to thank the military community for their support. I'll never be able to explain how much you motivated me and how much I always tried to make you proud.
I want to thank all of my opponents. Iron sharpens iron, and every great victory or crushing defeat occurred because there was someone who trained hard and had the courage to meet me across the cage.
You could waterboard me for days - for years - and I would still be cracking jokes about how bad Rachel Maddow is.
I make, like, three or four times more when I don't fight than when I do fight. And, I'm one of the higher-paid guys in the UFC, which is remarkably tragic and pathetic.
The people that are close to me, the people that I spend most of my time with, they're all really like-minded people.
I've been part of task forces hunting the most evil humans to walk the face of this planet. I believe all of that was for a reason, because I love America.
People want to hear what I do with Special Forces, as a ranger, as a sniper. And I'm like 'What does that have to do with fighting?' Let's talk about fighting. They couldn't be more different; there's nothing similar about them.
Kettlebells are the best for everything. We do snatches and swings with them for explosiveness and hamstring and lower back strength, and we'll also throw them into conditioning circuits where I'll do a burpee holding the kettlebells and transition into a 2-handed snatch.
I have a pretty amazing life. Even back-to-back deployments - Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey - it's still pretty rewarding.
When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it's kinda cute... A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don't. It's not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do.
MMA has a referee, and you're wearing gloves. I'm in there with another volunteering participant that's out there to win some prize money.
I love the idea of what America is. America is a bunch of people that do these incredible, thankless, selfless jobs that nobody really knows about that makes that American dream possible.
That's part of my military character, I think. You back one of us into a corner, and you can only expect one thing: us coming at you like wild, rabid dogs.
I have no problem putting on a kit, carrying a big sniper rifle, and running a few thousand meters.
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