Rashad Evans Quotes

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Rashad Evans

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 25, 1979

I've trained with real, world-class wrestlers.

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Everyone's talking about Phil Davis and what he did in college. It's an accomplishment to win an NCAA title. I don't want to discredit that. But I believe if I would have wrestled him in college, I would have beat him.

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There's a lot of reasons I didn't perform the way I could have in college. Going to college, I was a new parent, I lived in another state. I just wasn't mentally into it when I was in college.

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I was just so rambunctious as a little kid. It started because I hung out with my older brothers and their friends. I always had to fight to prove I was tough.

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I won't fight Thiago Silva. I won't fight Cezar 'Mutante' Ferreira. I won't fight anybody who I train with.

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It's sad because I worked so hard to be able to provide for my kids and give them a better life than I ever had for myself but I can't give them the one thing which they really need more than anything, and that's me.

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I grew up so poor and now I have an opportunity to provide for my family in a way that I never imagined. I take that in consideration and try to exploit every single opportunity because when it's over it's over, there are no redos.

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At one point in my life, I felt as if fighting was everything. It was everything. I put life second.

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I don't want to go out losing. But at the same time, it's what I need. It's what I need to do because I feel like I have other things in life that are calling me to do, to go to.

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I've always felt that I had to go out and prove myself in every fight.

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I give a lot of credit to my training partners and to my coaches. Both Greg Jackson and Michael Winklejohn are amazing.

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Getting the title shot was huge.

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I got Rampage's style down so good I am even wearing my dog's chain!

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I'm one of those athletes, I compete better for coaches that I have a lot of love and respect for.

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I didn't grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me that made me very angry.

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Eric Knuutila was one of those coaches who I could tell who cared, who went the extra mile, who made sure that it wasn't just about getting me on the mat and wrestling.

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I wouldn't have won anything without Bill Dixon.

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I kind of did mixed martial arts as a hobby. At the time I was actually wanting to become a police officer as I was working in a hospital as a security job in Michigan. It was something I did in my off time.

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I didn't really realize that I could make it into a career until midway through the 'Ultimate Fighter' show when I started beating guys who had been training in the sport for a really long time.

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Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.

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