Artem Lobov Quotes

Artem Lobov

Profession : Mixed Martial Artist

Birth : August 11, 1986

I know there's not a man in the world in any of the striking arts that would just run over me.

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Guys don't want to take hard fights, they avoid any challenges, they take the easiest fights and then they get rewarded with a UFC contract. That's not right, that should never happen that way.

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I can take a punch.

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They should bring up my record, and call it the fighter bible. The warrior bible. All those guys with padded records should read it everyday, and they should put my picture on their wall as the Jesus Christ of MMA.

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Get a boxer and get him wrestling for a minute or two - the arms get so heavy, filled with blood, they can't even hold them up any more, they can't box.

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It would be very hard to say who would be the bigger draw in Russia between Khabib and Conor.

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I'm able to do it a lot better outside the UFC than when I was in the UFC.

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For me, when someone is able to beat me, that's the guy that I want to spar with.

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When I was in the UFC I challenged some of the biggest guys in the world. When I was fighting in Europe I did the same.

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Growing up in the Soviet Union, ballroom dancing wasn't the coolest thing to do. But that probably made me tougher, because it wasn't an easy task to do ballroom dancing and not get bullied. And I never got bullied in my life, even though I changed to five secondary schools in three different countries.

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Many MMA fighters have tried boxing before, even just sparring for a few rounds, but no boxer has done MMA rounds. There's just no way for them to do that.

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Don't get me wrong, I'm very thankful for UFC.

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At the end of the day, you have to get finishes. If you want to be successful in this industry that's what you need.

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I love fighting. It gives me a cheque to pay for my food and for my accommodation and that's great but I just love to fight.

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Whether I like them or I don't like them, it makes no difference for me. Whoever is standing across the cage from me, that's who is going to go down.

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I always seek the highest challenge, the biggest challenge.

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I truly love fighting, so how can there be pressure for me when I absolutely love it?

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I've said it before, me and Conor are very, very good friends, and he's certaintly helped me get into the UFC, you know, it is what it is, it makes no difference.

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If people are watching your fights and they care about what you do then that is success to me. As far as I'm concerned, I am one of the most successful fighters in the world.

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Conor knows how to fight and he knows how to box. He has been boxing professional boxers for his whole life, he has had almost 50 amateur boxing fights.

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