Diego Sanchez Quotes

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Diego Sanchez

Profession : Mixed Martial Artist

Birth : December 31, 1981

I let 'The Nightmare' go. To me, I feel a negative in it. I don't like it. It's kind of evil. I don't want to represent that.

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I want to represent positivity and I want to represent the good.

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Over the years, I've tried to find myself, tried to find out who I really was. I ended up coming full circle, a circle that took me back to that street fighter I started as: Diego Sanchez, from 'Burque,' New Mexico, fighting on the streets.

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I'm a workhorse.

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You can only get away with fighting as the lighter guy in a weight class for so long. That's what I was doing at 170 pounds.

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I've always been a good submission grappler, but I've still evolved, upped my skills and I continue to get better every day.

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I just want to be Diego Sanchez. I don't need a nickname. I'm me.

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I've worked very hard on improving my speed and my footwork, and I've implemented a lot of specific training to try to fill that hole in my game.

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I got sucked real deep into the fame and the money. I was a bachelor and I got sucked into a bad life of partying.

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After my Clay Guida fight, I went down a bad path, man. It was just not a good path. After my loss to B.J. Penn it just got worse. I got really out of control.

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I dedicated my life to Jesus Christ, for real.

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I don't get much credit for being the first Ultimate Fighter.

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I had a torn labrum as I exited The Ultimate Fighter, and I was 22 years old.

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I used to be in the trailer park with one glove on because I didn't have two, punching myself in the face saying, 'I'm Johnny Tapia' to intimidate the other kids that I would box.

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I was never really, truly learning anything at Jackson-Wink. I was just training with a bunch of a group of guys to where it was like a wrestling practice.

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Me and Nick Diaz hated each other. Nick Diaz used to send me e-mails. He found my e-mail, he talked to one of the MMA journalists at the time, there wasn't many. Gave him my e-mail and he would e-mail me hate mails.

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My motto is, 'Just earn it.'

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Before, when I was 19-0, I was undefeated and I was 23, 24 years old. Yeah, I was cocky, I had a little bit of ego. I had to get humbled.

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