Dan Hardy Quotes

Dan Hardy

Profession : Mixed Martial Artist

Birth : May 17, 1982

The method in which the UFC parted ways with me has been very vindictive.

Dan Hardy

Knocking Rory Markham out at the O2 arena was awesome.

Dan Hardy

I think Oliveira is a horrible fight for everybody in the lightweight division, just because he bookends everybody's skills with really good jiu jitsu and really good striking skills.

Dan Hardy

Mayweather is a very smart businessman and he knows there's no respect from the boxing world in beating Conor McGregor.

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I love boxing but one of the reasons I struggle with it is because I can't easily connect with a fighter who doesn't have a loss on his record. Defeats are the most important fights. They're the ones where you see what a person is made of. A lot of the time you don't get to see that until a boxer is near the end of his career.

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I was knocked out at the O2 Arena in front of my family and friends. For a fighter that's humiliating; but it's more humiliating when a fighter makes excuses. I much prefer a fighter that immediately says: 'I will learn from this and be better next time.' That makes me excited about seeing them again.

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I enjoyed that role as a fighter with the red mohawk. But it was just one part of me.

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Pounding the road in bad weather always reminds me of the sacrifices I've made to get here.

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Mixed martial arts is about graft, it's about having to work hard on all your skills.

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I've seen a lot of tapes of Markham. He is an attacking fighter, he's got power in both hands and strikes powerfully. He's good to watch in that he takes two to land one, but the thing is I don't believe he's got the chin to adopt that style with me.

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I know, it sounds a contradiction, a fine art student fighting in UFC. But I'm not that unusual.

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I've fought a maths teacher, one of my sparring partners has a degree in biochemistry; there's a lot of brain in the octagon.

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The difference between a successful fighter and the rest is that the successful fighter is smarter. Believe me, the best mixed martial artists are smart fighters.

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I have no interest in fighting on the streets - I never did have - but I like to out-think my opponents.

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Outside the Octagon, outside training, I'm really not an aggressive person at all.

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Sport is about turning losing situations into winning ones. That's how you stay on top.

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Intellect is invaluable in the sporting arena.

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I like Alpha male footballers.

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I did A-levels in Art, Graphic Design, Maths and General Studies, and always thought I would be an artist or graphic designer, because when I was at school, there was not a career path in mixed martial arts. It has changed with the emergence of the UFC.

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People are always taken aback when they discover my university background, but I have always enjoyed art and graphic design.

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