Curtis Blaydes Quotes

Curtis Blaydes

Profession : Mixed Martial Artist

Birth : February 18, 1991

Volkov's legit.

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I have a child. I'm not going to jeopardize her future or her quality of life to appease people who know nothing about me, who watch me for 15 to 25 minutes and then forget about me. They don't care about me or what I have going on. I'm a prize fighter, and I'm here to win prizes.

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I'm not a smack talker. I have a speech impediment. So if I try to talk smack and I start stuttering, that ruins the whole thing right there anyway.

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I'm going to make people watch. I know people are going to watch. You may not like it. You'll probably root for me to lose, but you're going to watch.

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I'm here to win fights. I'm here to earn my money.

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I'll wait for a title shot. I don't care who it is. If it's Jon, if it's Stipe, if they bring in Brock Lesnar, I'll wait.

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I'm not in this for glory. It's not what wakes me up and gets me working out in the morning. I'm here for money and I know if I have the belt, I get more money.

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I don't live a flashy lifestyle.

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I'm not a black belt, but in MMA, the difference between a black belt and white belt is just a few elbows.

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If I tried to stand and bang with Alistair, at that point and time in my career, I didn't have the skill or the acumen necessary.

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I don't think a lot of people appreciate how athletic you have to be to get takedowns.

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My hands are fast and they've always been fast and I've always been athletic.

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If you look at heavyweight history, it's not too often you see a fight going five full rounds.

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There's no shame in getting beat by someone like DC.

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I may not be the best pure wrestler in MMA but I'm the best MMA wrestler. I use my wrestling the most aggressively.

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I'm always looking to shoot, always. Once your hands go up, I'm looking to get to your hips, and what makes that scarier is that you know I'm going to pull the trigger, but you don't know when. I disguise it but I use it a lot.

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My hands are good, but I've been wrestling since I was 14 years old.

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That's how I fight. I pick it up as the rounds move on.

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I'm going to consistently come at you over and over with the same aggression I had in the first round in the third round and the fourth round and the fifth round.

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I believe in my conditioning.

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