A biography for Rashad Evanshasn’t been written yet.
“I love Chuck Liddell. Chuck Liddell is a good friend of mine, actually.”
“Being tough is probably the biggest thing that NFL players are known for, having that kind of toughness.”
“When I fight, part of the swagger that I had when I used to fight on the street comes out. When I fought on the street, I used to try to embarrass someone for even wanting to fight me.”
“I've trained with real, world-class wrestlers.”
“I enjoy the whole aspect of training with different people.”
“At one point in my life, I felt as if fighting was everything. It was everything. I put life second.”
“I definitely think you should have wrestling in schools.”
“The results of anything are equal to how persistent you are with it, so if you're persistent and dedicate yourself to working out, you'll get bigger results.”
“It's like when your parents tell you what to do, but it's not until you go through it yourself that you see why they said what they said. Sometimes you just have to go through things in life to become a better person.”
“Keith Jardine pushes me the hardest because we're in the same weight class and we get competitive with each other, we make sure we're in shape and ready to compete.”
“I didn't really realize that I could make it into a career until midway through the 'Ultimate Fighter' show when I started beating guys who had been training in the sport for a really long time.”
“Working at the hospital, there was a lot of starchy food. I was in good with the lunch lady, so she would hook me up with all kinds of macaroni and cheese and potatoes and that kind of food. I would eat it all night to the part where I hated food. I got pretty big.”
“I've been working on my ground game, my jiu jitsu, and my standup as well. Those are areas where I feel like really needs to be cleaned up and areas I know that I can get better.”
“I want to train with whoever is the best.”
“All the losses that I had, I think they were important, just because it helped me grow as a fighter, helped me grow as a person.”
“Jon has always been able to start off at a certain pace but then pick it up throughout the fight and then, at the end of the fight, his opponents are like, 'Damn, this guy is at another level.' I think that's what makes Jon Jones, Jon Jones.”
“For the last 14 years or so, I've been a fighter for so long I kind of forgot what it's like to not have this as my biggest form of expression of who I am.”
“MMA was love at fight sight. I felt like I was born to do it.”
“I kind of did mixed martial arts as a hobby. At the time I was actually wanting to become a police officer as I was working in a hospital as a security job in Michigan. It was something I did in my off time.”
“For me I think the pressure Chael Sonnen brings is hard to match with his offense, takedowns, ground and pound, hand in the face and dropping elbows and shots. It kind of wears down a fighter.”