Dan Hardy Quotes

Dan Hardy

Profession : Mixed Martial Artist

Birth : May 17, 1982

The most important thing is to eat regularly. You need to stabilise your blood sugar levels so you're body's not struggling for calories when it needs them.

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A lot of people cut fats out because fat has been stereotyped as a bad word but it's really not. Your body needs fat to survive.

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Confidence is so important, and that's entirely a mental construct.

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I trained with Shaolin monks in China and I faced a lot of limitations I had to get over. I got hurt, I got injured, I got tired, but I always came back for more because my brain told me I could overcome it all. It was a mental puzzle I was being asked to solve.

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The truth is, in the ring you live a heightened life.

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As the adrenalin pumps, so time slows, so your reactions sharpen.

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I've been watching DVDs of GSP's progression, and I know his particular game.

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I never really had any doubt that Paul Daley would KO Dustin Hazelett.

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We know that money's being made in the sport of MMA. It's just not finding its way to the fighters.

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If the UFC is smart, they'll start throwing a bit more cash around so the fighters can reinvest more in the industry. That's ultimately where their money is going to go.

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People need to speak up if they see something that is not right.

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I had an up-and-down relationship with the UFC over the years, because when I first signed with the UFC, I thought we were one family in MMA and we were all walking toward the same thing.

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It's much more easy to relate to people when they've stepped off the streets and they're going through hard times.

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It's not necessarily a meritocracy, the UFC, as we know, and that's down to partly marketability.

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I like to stay in shape.

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I'm never gonna retire. Never ever.

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I'm a fighter that put on a shirt and tie and did a grown-up's job.

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I'm to the point. That's how I am.

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I used to stop people in muay Thai with body shots, especially if they'd been talking a lot of trash, because then they had to lay on the canvas while I got my arms raised as they couldn't breath.

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It's difficult to really develop any kind of muscle strength when you just don't sleep long enough, when you get two or three hours at a time.

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