Chad Mendes Quotes

Chad Mendes

Profession : Boxer

Birth : May 1, 1985

You take a bare knuckle and you put an MMA glove on it and you've got a half an inch or less of padding. So it's not like you have a full boxing glove to eat some of that. It's gonna be pretty much the same thing.

Chad Mendes

I love smoking meats.

Chad Mendes

I love money.

Chad Mendes

This is a sport that anything can happen. These are little gloves. We're all very talented in different areas and whoever's having the better night that night is going to be the champ.

Chad Mendes

I started wrestling when I was five years old, and from the time that I actually had the knowledge of what college wrestling was and what a national championship meant, it was a goal I set for myself. It's something I worked for my whole life. To get there finally and to come up just short, it's pretty hard to take.

Chad Mendes

When we went to Brazil and fought a Brazilian there, it was crazy how much the entire country has their athletes' back.

Chad Mendes

I don't have anything against 'Bang.' There is nothing in my mind that makes me hate the guy or anything like that.

Chad Mendes

My drive to compete, my drive to push my body to the limit and try to test myself in the octagon and any type of sport that I've ever done is something that can translate to my hunting and fishing.

Chad Mendes

I've been a competitor my whole life and I love competing, I love fighting.

Chad Mendes

I feel like me and Frankie have pretty similar styles, as far as our boxing and wrestling. I feel like I have a little more power.

Chad Mendes

I'm always trying to eat more because I have the tendency to get small.

Chad Mendes

I can close the distance on anyone.

Chad Mendes

Money is always on our minds.

Chad Mendes

I remember feeling this in wrestling: you get guys who go out there and their whole goal is to just not get pinned. It's pretty tough to pin a guy who's just trying not to get pinned. Even if you completely dominate them, people will look at that match as a boring match. If a guy's not there to fight, it makes it tough.

Chad Mendes

I want to be at the top of my division and if that's something that I'm not doing and I can't do, then it's probably on to the next adventure in my life.

Chad Mendes

There are so many different aspects of mixed martial arts you have to cover. You can't just be good at one thing to be a champion - you have to work on your wrestling, kickboxing, boxing, jiu-jitsu, and strength and conditioning. It's hard to find time to fit all those in without getting overtrained.

Chad Mendes

That's what's so cool about the sport. It's you and another human in there. All the mental game that goes into it. The dieting. There's so much preparation, and then you in there against another human being and one of you wins. That's what makes it special.

Chad Mendes

I'm a big hunter, so I eat a lot of wild game - venison, wild hog, wild turkey.

Chad Mendes

I've been competing since I was five years old.

Chad Mendes

This is the fight game, where somebody could get seriously injured, and that's what I'm looking to do when I get in there against Conor McGregor.

Chad Mendes