A biography for Chad Mendeshasn’t been written yet.
“I have nothing against Frankie.”
“I know protein per ounce is a lot higher in a lot of the wild game, compared to beef, and chicken, and pork.”
“It's just crazy to think of all the stuff that we've done and gone through and accomplished. It feels good looking back, it's been a crazy, wild ride for sure.”
“I don't hardly ever get taken down at the gym.”
“I never let my weight get too far out of control.”
“For me, fighting, I love competing, but I don't love getting my head beat in.”
“Being explosive on the feet is different than grappling, with the squeezing and pushing and pulling. It's different on your muscles.”
“Sometimes, it's tough to stay motivated to stay in the gym when you are going through the same grind every single day. When you have something feeding your fire, it's great.”
“I feel like for whatever reason if McGregor starts getting the best of him standing, Aldo will be able to take him down.”
“We're not making millions and millions of dollars doing this, so for me it's more of a goal for me to say that I'm the UFC champion.”
“I'm more of an explosive, blast you off your feet kind of wrestler.”
“The pay part of it, back in the mixed martial arts days, where it's like if you lose you only get half your money, that weighs on you.”
“The first time I ever saw Jose Aldo fight, I think it was his first WEC fight.”
“There's something to be said about two guys who just get in there and beat the crap out of each other for 25 minutes straight. There's some kind of weird thing, like a bond or something that's made.”
“I'm the type of guy that overtrains pretty damn quick, so three to four weeks into a training camp, I feel peaked out.”
“It's always exciting to get in there when there is a lot of hype surrounding a fight. It's actually tough to get in there when there is none.”
“I know I hit hard.”
“I remember feeling this in wrestling: you get guys who go out there and their whole goal is to just not get pinned. It's pretty tough to pin a guy who's just trying not to get pinned. Even if you completely dominate them, people will look at that match as a boring match. If a guy's not there to fight, it makes it tough.”
“Obviously I've fought Aldo twice, and Conor for the fake belt.”
“Every fighter I train for, I'm also training for Aldo.”