Israel Adesanya Quotes

Israel Adesanya

Profession : Athlete

Birth : July 22, 1989

I wear gold all of the time. I collect gold like a magpie.

Israel Adesanya

I am a very persuasive man.

Israel Adesanya

I don't really take punishment from fights; the punishment is from the training, from my teammates.

Israel Adesanya

I've never had staph in my life. Knock on wood, I never will.

Israel Adesanya

My first stadium show was in China, it was a 50,000-seat stadium. I think 40,000 showed up.

Israel Adesanya

Being a big black man in China in the mainland, walking down the street, you have everyone looking at you, 'Basketball?' They don't really see a lot of us around, maybe on TV, so they're just looking.

Israel Adesanya

Look at rugby, the national sport, you have guys weighing 130kg, 140kg, who can run like sprinters full clip into each other causing brain damage constantly on that field.

Israel Adesanya

They don't really teach you how to be famous and a lot of people don't realise that this game comes with a lot of traps. So I'm just looking after myself, looking after my health and making sure I don't fall into those traps.

Israel Adesanya

You won't see me on TMZ shaving my hair and yelling at the camera guy.

Israel Adesanya

Put it this way, people in my position in the UFC, their coaches couldn't tell them to sweep the mats because some people feel like they're better than that. I'm not one of those people. No matter how I am on camera, people who really know me, who know my soul, know I keep that same energy. So ain't nothing change but the change.

Israel Adesanya

There are a lot of sports that New Zealand does very well but MMA is a truly global sport and it's practiced in the farthest reaches of this earth.

Israel Adesanya

To reach the heights of a truly global sport, in a sport as difficult as this, is a monumental achievement.

Israel Adesanya

Kids will tell me 'oh I want to be like you when I grow up,' you know. I just thought 'nah, don't be like me, be like you,' because first of all they don't really know me but second of all I understand what they're trying to say but I just let them know - be like you.

Israel Adesanya

That's the beauty of this sport. We're trying to get to the same place, maybe, but we're on different paths.

Israel Adesanya

Even in my first year in the UFC I fought five times in the year.

Israel Adesanya

I want to defend my belt against all the middleweights that are the biggest threats supposedly before I jump up in weight.

Israel Adesanya

I never, ever deviate from my plans.

Israel Adesanya

Even when I was fighting in China I met some guys on the local circuit that we're fighting, they didn't enjoy it, they wanted to be musicians and do other things, but they're just fighting because it pays the bills and they get money for it.

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I'm a dancer, I'm an entertainer.

Israel Adesanya

A guy like Conor McGregor, one thing I really appreciated when he first got in the game and one thing that really inspired me was his love for fighting.

Israel Adesanya