Dan Hardy Quotes

Dan Hardy

Profession : Mixed Martial Artist

Birth : May 17, 1982

I did enjoy university, but ever since I was a kid, martial arts has come first and what I feel most comfortable doing.

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At school, my aggression in sport often got me in trouble. I was even kicked off the rugby team for getting into too many fights.

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Nobody in the world can tell me I'm not a professional athlete.

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I have dedicated my heart and soul to sport for many years.

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I don't think I'd want my kids to watch Diego Sanchez. He shows heart, but the reason he shows heart is because he doesn't show any intelligence in his fighting style.

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I'm not going to be beaten on reach by many people.

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I've been working on footwork since I was a kid. I've always been able to put my feet where I want them. If I can't do it then I can learn it pretty quickly.

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I've trained with Dillashaw, I've seen him in the gym - I've seen him work... I've seen the power and the tenacity that he moves with and the potential that he has.

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I love watching fights with my friends, love discussing the fights.

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Gegard Mousasi is much more old school than a lot of UFC fans might recognise. We actually shared an opponent, Akihiro Gono, who I made my UFC debut against.

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I have a very realistic perspective on the sport, I think. The danger of guys sitting in the armchair and criticising is that they don't actually have that real time experience. I've had that.

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Ian McCall is not a guy to look past.

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I can watch a fight and I can see when a guy's not trying or when he's exhausted.

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I never did fighting with a bit of commentary. I was fighting and then I did commentary.

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I have wide interests outside the professional fighting lifestyle: music, cars, tattooing, clothes, fashion, world culture and so on.

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I've always given the media a lot of time. A lot of fighters don't do that and it doesn't help their careers at all.

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Even from my first pro fight in 2004, I've been encountering resistance from all around me.

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Articulating the sport, being a voice for the sport is something I would be foolish not to relish.

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Lyoto Machida and Chuck Liddell are both strikers, but vastly different in style.

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Alves had been very powerful against Matt Hughes, but he was completely muffled by GSP. I don't think Alves's skill set is over-rated, either. He's a very, very skilful striker, and very powerful as well. He beat himself in that fight. He had all the skills to beat GSP, and he could have gone through GSP like he did Matt Hughes.

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