Sage Northcutt Quotes

Sage Northcutt

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 1, 1996

I know people want to get out there, and they're all tattooed up, and they're all serious and stuff and ready to fight. I'm ready to fight, but I still have a smile on my face at the same time.

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I never underestimate anybody.

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People can say what they want. But you can silence a lot of people when you go out there and win.

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The UFC offered me a fight against one of the Top-10 fighters named Demian Maia. I believe he was, like, No. 2 at the time. They obviously believed in me to think that I could face one of the best guys in the division.

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It can be kind of difficult because of the workload I have at Texas A&M, so I have to find time to study as I pursue my major, but also to travel and compete and train hard for my fights to come in the UFC.

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I'm always looking to go out there and finish my opponents as soon as possible so I can stay safe and protected.

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I would like to be the youngest UFC world champion. I believe I can accomplish that.

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Georges St-Pierre - he's so awesome. It was very great getting to roll around with him and getting to train with him. He's so nice and so friendly, and he's very humble, too.

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I might take a little time off from school to train. I'd be a totally different animal if I trained full time.

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When I was nine years old, I was on the cover of 'Sport Karate' magazine.

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I was at my house, and me, and my brother, and my sister were kind of just playing around. And I was like, 'I wonder if I can twist this apple and rip it apart?' So I was playing around, and I did it, and I was like, 'Wow, that kind of takes a firm grip.'

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I started working out and doing martial arts when I was about 4 years old, and I was competing by the time I was five or six. So my mom and dad had me doing push-ups and sit-ups from a very young age.

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By the time I was 4 or 5, I was doing 250 push-ups and sit-ups a day. When I was 6, we bumped it up to about 500 push-ups and sit-ups a day. Some days it could even be 750 or 1,000.

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Typically, when someone gets a choke on me, I have a pretty strong neck. It's usually hard to choke me.

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I'm always pretty much smiling.

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Knowing what God has in store for me - it gives me hope. I kind of feel like God's warrior, pretty much. God's weapon.

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The more fights I have in the UFC, the more people I meet, the more opportunities I have to make an impact.

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I feel like I have goals that I set, and I try to accomplish those goals, so no matter what room I step into, I know the direction that I'm wanting to head.

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A lot of people have a lot of things going on in their life. You'll be walking past ten people in the middle of the day and not even notice, but someone might have a family member that died, or someone might be going through a hard time. Sometimes you're the only person that someone might see that lifts them up.

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I think that we all got to have respect for each other. And we could all be more careful with the things we say.

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