Rashad Evans

“My wife is married to a part-time husband. That's hard to do. The kids get the short end of the stick, too.”

“When you have a training relationship, it's not about winning, it's about making each other better and helping each other.”

“Rampage's footwork is atrocious. His boxing is slipping. He doesn't take the fight game seriously.”

“When you violate a pact, there's no way I can ever work with you again.”

“Of course I expect to be booed. People always have to find the bad guy, and for some reason, the look on my face or something, people just want to boo me. That's fine.”

“I'm never gonna please the haters, and I'm not gonna try to.”

“I try to stay away from high sodium and high sugar.”

“It's sad because I worked so hard to be able to provide for my kids and give them a better life than I ever had for myself but I can't give them the one thing which they really need more than anything, and that's me.”

“I never want to get content. I never want to think that I'm at a certain spot and I'm gonna stay there, because this organization's hard to stay in, and this is the wrong place to get complacent in.”

“I got Rampage's style down so good I am even wearing my dog's chain!”

“There's a lot of reasons I didn't perform the way I could have in college. Going to college, I was a new parent, I lived in another state. I just wasn't mentally into it when I was in college.”

“One thing you understand quickly as a fighter is that you're not punching with eight or 10 oz. Gloves. We've got 4 oz. gloves. It only takes one good shot for a fight to be over.”

“My momma told me a long time ago, 'not everybody has to like you.' And it's very true. I'm ok with that.”

“Yeah, I miss that feeling of knocking somebody clean out. There's nothing like it when you go into a fight and you just take 'em up out of there with just one punch. It's just the best feeling in the world.”

“It's good to be able to feel appreciated and to be able to know that your efforts and the impact in the sport meant something.”

“I wanted to play football, and my football coach told me if I wanted to be a football player, I should wrestle. That's why I started to wrestle.”

“I really worked hard to get myself in shape, just from a physical standpoint when you're able to bring your body down and have the discipline to get into shape the way I was, it's really a spiritual journey as well.”

“I'm the guy that everybody wants to hate.”

“I pretty much focus on all the main styles out there, karate, wrestling, boxing, jiujitsu, just pretty much anything within MMA.”

“When people are overlooking somebody like Phil Davis, it's a dangerous thing.”