20 Best Combat Sport Quotes of All-Time

  1. Float like a butterfly sting like a bee – his hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.Muhammad Ali
  2. Listen Wanderlei, I will do a home invasion on you. I will cut the power to your house and the next thing you’ll hear is me climbing up your stairs in a pair of night vision goggles I bought in the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine. I’ll pick the lock to the master room door, take a picture of you in bed with the Nogueira brothers working on your ‘jiu-jitsu’. I’ll take said quote unquote photograph, post it at dorksfrombrazil.com, password – not required, username – not required. That, Wanderlei, is how you threaten someone. Dummy.
    Chael Sonnen
  3. Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  4. It’s interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I’ve proved since my career I’ve surpassed them as far my popularity. I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.Mike Tyson
  5. I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘” Muhammad Ali
  6. When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.Mike Tyson
  7. I’m not in this sport to see how hard I can get hit or to see how many big punches I can take. I am in this game to fight as long as I can. I am trying to dish a lot of punishment.Floyd Mayweather Junior
  8. Even if I thought I could get a submission I’m not laying underneath a grown man with my legs spread on worldwide TV. Some guys subscribe to that theory but I am a Republican and we don’t do that.
    Chael Sonnen
  9. I just want to conquer people and their souls.Mike Tyson
  10. I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierceMargaret Mead
  11. My phone rings, they call me up and say, ‘Chael, your testosterone level is too high.’ I say, ‘Well, how high was it?’ They say, ‘0.7.’ I said, ‘What’s normal?’ They say, ‘0.6.’; I said, ‘One-tenth? You’re telling me I’m one-tenth higher than the average man? Re-test that – you must have caught me on a low day.’
    Chael Sonnen
  12. I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose because I try to punch the bone into the brain.Mike Tyson
  13. Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  14. Never piss off a gangster.Chael Sonnen
  15. I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them. So you shouldn’t talk anymore… Unless you want to, you know.Mike Tyson
  16. I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.Muhammad Ali
  17. It’s ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.Mike Tyson
  18. True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.”  Napoleon Bonaparte
  19. I think I’ll take a bath in his blood.Mike Tyson
  20. I don’t fight for bragging rights.Floyd Mayweather Junior