Tim Kennedy Quotes

Tim Kennedy

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 1, 1979

I hate it when anyone in the gym can deadlift more than me.

Tim Kennedy

I love to deadlift, and it's a huge part of my training because it works every muscle in the body.

Tim Kennedy

I want to earn a top-contender status in the UFC, so I have to fight the best.

Tim Kennedy

I was deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq with British Special Forces Units. I have great respect for the British military and the country as a whole, so I don't have anything negative to say about that.

Tim Kennedy

I'm competitive when I fight, but I don't get emotionally involved.

Tim Kennedy

I've fought guys that I like. When you're fighting a guy that you don't like, you have to be able to separate certain aspects of it.

Tim Kennedy

People want to hear what I do with Special Forces, as a ranger, as a sniper. And I'm like 'What does that have to do with fighting?' Let's talk about fighting. They couldn't be more different; there's nothing similar about them.

Tim Kennedy

My military service has nothing to do with what I do in the ring.

Tim Kennedy

MMA in an individual sport, and you're just pushing yourself to be as dangerous as you can be in 15 minutes.

Tim Kennedy

I have no problem putting on a kit, carrying a big sniper rifle, and running a few thousand meters.

Tim Kennedy

I'm endorsing Col. Maness for United States Senate because of his deeply held commitment to the constitutional rights and principles our nation was founded upon.

Tim Kennedy

When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it's kinda cute... A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don't. It's not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do.

Tim Kennedy

I'm very disciplined in the approach I take for my training.

Tim Kennedy

Everyone knows who I am; everyone respects me as a shooter, as an operator, as a soldier... I'm always truthful, I'm always honest, and I'm always trying to do the right thing.

Tim Kennedy

I'm not perfect - I'm human, and I can make mistakes - but I'm always going to fight clean; I'm always going to go out there and try to put on a good show.

Tim Kennedy

Watching everybody have such a fantastic time, loving life, loving America - I wish that was the feeling year-round, that it didn't take the Fourth of July for us to be like, 'Yeah, America is awesome.'

Tim Kennedy

I wish that everyone that's complaining about how things are here would shut their mouth for a little bit, go around the world and see how it is everywhere else.

Tim Kennedy

Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time.

Tim Kennedy

That's part of my military character, I think. You back one of us into a corner, and you can only expect one thing: us coming at you like wild, rabid dogs.

Tim Kennedy

If you've been hit, if you've been put down, if you've lost, that next time you come out, you have to make a testament: you have to make a demonstration, a showing, that it's not going to happen again.

Tim Kennedy