Rashad Evans Quotes

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Rashad Evans

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 25, 1979

It was really difficult being away from MMA because it's been a way of life for me for 13 years. But being on the outside and coaching helps you sharpen your skills because you have to explain what you do, why things work and why other things don't.

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The only way I'm going out is unconscious. I'm not a quitter.

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When you have a training relationship, it's not about winning, it's about making each other better and helping each other.

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I've been working on my ground game, my jiu jitsu, and my standup as well. Those are areas where I feel like really needs to be cleaned up and areas I know that I can get better.

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I'm the guy that everybody wants to hate.

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Rampage's footwork is atrocious. His boxing is slipping. He doesn't take the fight game seriously.

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Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.

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When I fight, part of the swagger that I had when I used to fight on the street comes out. When I fought on the street, I used to try to embarrass someone for even wanting to fight me.

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When I go in and fight, I'm not the same guy who is sitting in front of you, who is meeting the fans or anything like that. It's like a split personality.

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I'm always interested to watch Chris Leben fight. He just fights from a different place.

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I definitely think you should have wrestling in schools.

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Wrestling is one of the earliest and oldest martial arts there is.

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If you grow up with a wrestling coach, you learn differently. If you were late, everything was about push-ups and laps around the gym. I once said, 'Am I on a wrestling team or a damn track team?' That resulted in me running for the entire practice. It gives you a certain mentality.

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When you violate a pact, there's no way I can ever work with you again.

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When people are overlooking somebody like Phil Davis, it's a dangerous thing.

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I'm not really too worried about the mystique of Jon Jones. Because I know Jon Jones' core. I remember when Jon Jones used to come up to me and say, 'Hey man, what's it like when everybody wants to take pictures with you?' So I know Jon Jones.

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I come from nothing. Growing up I didn't really have too much, and I can tap into that anytime that I want to and just remember how bad things were for me growing up and just knowing that I never want to go back there and I don't want my kids to go through it.

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How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

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I never want to get content. I never want to think that I'm at a certain spot and I'm gonna stay there, because this organization's hard to stay in, and this is the wrong place to get complacent in.

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You've got so many guys coming up and putting in work, and everybody wants to be in my position, so I gotta be paranoid and think that if I'm not producing, if I'm not going out there and winning fights and winning impressively, I'm gonna be replaced.

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