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Rashad Evans

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 25, 1979

True wealth is not measured by how much money you've got in the bank or how many toys you've got. Some of the happiest people in the world don't have a crying quarter, but they've got all the things that mean a lot to them.

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MMA embodies a lot of disciplines of sports with footwork and with football, especially with the punching technique you get the hand and eye coordination.

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I'm never gonna please the haters, and I'm not gonna try to.

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I was a rowdy boy growing up.

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Coming into community college, I wasn't sure of where I wanted to go in my future.

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I wanted to play football, and my football coach told me if I wanted to be a football player, I should wrestle. That's why I started to wrestle.

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I went to Michigan State because a coach I was being recruited by told me if I go to Michigan State, I wouldn't start. I didn't like the boundaries he put on me. He was probably trying to look out for my best interests, but at the time I took it kind of personal. Not only did I start, but I made captain.

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MMA was love at fight sight. I felt like I was born to do it.

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Jon has always been able to start off at a certain pace but then pick it up throughout the fight and then, at the end of the fight, his opponents are like, 'Damn, this guy is at another level.' I think that's what makes Jon Jones, Jon Jones.

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You can have the best college wrestling in the world, but you can have terrible MMA wrestling.

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Of course I expect to be booed. People always have to find the bad guy, and for some reason, the look on my face or something, people just want to boo me. That's fine.

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The same people that boo you are the same people who will ask you for a picture an an autograph.

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Only thing I care about, the only thing I think about is the fight in front of me.

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Being tough is probably the biggest thing that NFL players are known for, having that kind of toughness.

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Sometimes when you open your mouth you show what you're afraid of more than anything.

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I will always find something to challenge myself. I will go up to heavyweight or down to middleweight.

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Yeah, I miss that feeling of knocking somebody clean out. There's nothing like it when you go into a fight and you just take 'em up out of there with just one punch. It's just the best feeling in the world.

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Keith Jardine pushes me the hardest because we're in the same weight class and we get competitive with each other, we make sure we're in shape and ready to compete.

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I don't really think about the title, to be honest with you. I'm just going to go in there and fight. I'm a proud champion, but at the same time I'm not really fighting for the belt. I'm fighting because I love to fight and don't wanna lose and I don't like to lose.

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I pretty much focus on all the main styles out there, karate, wrestling, boxing, jiujitsu, just pretty much anything within MMA.

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