Yair Rodriguez Quotes

Yair Rodriguez

Profession : Mixed Martial Artist

Birth : October 6, 1992

Stylistically, talking about styles, Brian Ortega is a super hard opponent and he's a really explosive guy.

Yair Rodriguez

Everybody loses.

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We're out there exposed and vulnerable to the world, but this sport, I'm telling you, man, there's nothing like it.

Yair Rodriguez

The loss against Frankie Edgar was pretty tough on me, of course.

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People know me as a professional fighter and when you are in the UFC, you are very visible. But I'm not just a fighter. I'm a man and I have a personal life, too. And I don't have to share every detail of my personal life with the public.

Yair Rodriguez

You know you're going to get hit when you fight and if you don't want to get hit, you shouldn't be in this sport.

Yair Rodriguez

Sometimes you get in there and the adrenaline is going and you fight a certain way and you wind up taking damage you could have avoided.

Yair Rodriguez

How often have you seen a fighter talking about the next fight and he didn't win the fight he was in? You have to take care of business first and then worry about everything else later.

Yair Rodriguez

If I become a champion, if I become the first Mexican UFC champion, I can become bigger because I will be the first one. There are already a lot of Mexican boxers, great boxers. I'm not saying Canelo is not great. He's great. But I think I can become bigger than that because I'll be the first one.

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Everybody thinks I'm fast, but they don't know how fast I am until they fight me. Whenever they fight me, they can never find me.

Yair Rodriguez

I like to fight short guys because my range helps me out a lot.

Yair Rodriguez

I think Frankie Edgar has the potential for me to knock him out because the way that he moves and he's short.

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Max Holloway is a huge name out there and I'm really happy to have the opportunity to fight him.

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At the level I want to be at, you have to be ready for anything.

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That's why we are here: to prove ourselves against the best fighters in history, in the world.

Yair Rodriguez

I met BJ once down in Albuquerque, it was before my fight with Andre Fili. I met him there, we did a little bit of shadow boxing, he didn't really know me back then but now I'm going to fight him so this is a pretty big deal for me. I used to watch his fights on YouTube and I used to learn from him.

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Training is training, fighting is fighting. It's two different things.

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I'm a different kind of fighter. I can fight whatever, whoever I want.

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There's a lot of things that need to happen in order for me to get to the title shot.

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My feet are swollen, and I'm always on crutches after my fights.

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