A biography for Chad Mendeshasn’t been written yet.
“I want that belt. I'm on my way, taking it one fight at a time, but I'm coming after it.”
“Jose Aldo can't run from me forever.”
“We train, we try to be as safe as we can, but you do realize this is MMA, this is a sport where we're continuously beating on our bodies every single day.”
“It's just business, I'm ready to fight anyone.”
“It's all about, in wrestling you're taught this at a young age: if you get taken down, you don't let the momentum stop. Once the guy takes you down and he stops the momentum, he has complete control and it's so much harder for you to have to work to try to get back up.”
“I fought Aldo, who's one of the best pound for pound fighters in the world. I went five rounds with him and pushed the pace the entire time.”
“Anybody at any time can get knocked out in this sport.”
“You have to do your homework, you have to do your due diligence and make sure that what you are doing in life are the right things.”
“After a win you usually come back and your spirits are high, you can look back at the fight and get excited. After a loss it's different.”
“Jose's a great champion. He's a tough dude.”
“If Aldo can't stay healthy and is too fragile to go through a training camp, then I think it is time to step aside and let guys who are able to do that and able to push through all that stuff, to be a champ.”
“This is a sport that anything can happen. These are little gloves. We're all very talented in different areas and whoever's having the better night that night is going to be the champ.”
“There's a lot of guys who don't get to fight a guy three times after losing to him twice.”
“I can close the distance on anyone.”
“I'm going in there to win every single time.”
“I started swimming before I got into wrestling at, like, 4 years old, then I wrestled from, like, 5 years old through college, graduated, and then the next day I headed to Sacramento to begin professional training.”
“I truly believe I can finish a guy like Jose Aldo.”
“This is how McGregor is, waging mental warfare before the fights. There's no way that guy is going to get in my head.”
“I finish fights.”
“I've been a high-level athlete since I was five years old.”