Tim Kennedy Quotes

Tim Kennedy

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 1, 1979

The people that are close to me, the people that I spend most of my time with, they're all really like-minded people.

Tim Kennedy

I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband.

Tim Kennedy

If Katie Couric or Anderson Cooper asked me to come on to their shows and give them content every single day, I would do it because that gives me access to a huge population of people that I can hopefully, in some way, plant seeds in fertile soil, and those seeds would grow into oak trees of freedom.

Tim Kennedy

Carlos Condit does the best job of being the counterstriking guy that is very elusive.

Tim Kennedy

I know I'm not a marquee name, and I'm looked past by most guys.

Tim Kennedy

It's a good thing I have another job because the UFC doesn't pay very well.

Tim Kennedy

I make, like, three or four times more when I don't fight than when I do fight. And, I'm one of the higher-paid guys in the UFC, which is remarkably tragic and pathetic.

Tim Kennedy

I will always have that, 'I want to be the best fighter on the planet' thing in me.

Tim Kennedy

You're always going to get an honest, straightforward response from me. Honest to a fault.

Tim Kennedy

I got my hand slapped for talking about fighter pay. That was a big one. I had Dana White yell at me in front of, like, 20 other fighters.

Tim Kennedy

I'm an eight-year Green Beret, Ranger, sniper.

Tim Kennedy

Michael Bisping, we had a five round battle. I beat him for five rounds and tripled the amount of strikes landed. I landed more take-downs in that fight than had been landed on him in his entire career.

Tim Kennedy

Fighting is a very independent thing, and it's not a team sport, and it's not the NFL, you know, because we don't have to look the same.

Tim Kennedy

There are some parallels between 'Zombieland' and 'Range 15,' except 'Zombieland,' with Woody Harrelson, there's this pleasurable fun in every scene.

Tim Kennedy

I'm against torture. I'm also against terrorism.

Tim Kennedy

You could waterboard me for days - for years - and I would still be cracking jokes about how bad Rachel Maddow is.

Tim Kennedy

I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.

Tim Kennedy

My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.

Tim Kennedy

I think obstacle courses in general are a blast, and I love the Green Beret one; I've done it - I don't know - 20, 30, 40 times. I'm always trying to break my time from the last one or use a new technique to get through a certain obstacle.

Tim Kennedy

No matter what I do, it's all about the workouts. When I travel, I make sure I get my workout in first. When I'm in camp for a fight, I don't travel at all, and I train three times a day. The secret is to just keep working.

Tim Kennedy