A biography for Rashad Evanshasn’t been written yet.
“I don't really think about the title, to be honest with you. I'm just going to go in there and fight. I'm a proud champion, but at the same time I'm not really fighting for the belt. I'm fighting because I love to fight and don't wanna lose and I don't like to lose.”
“The hardest thing in the world is to watch someone you love really not be able to get themselves together and really struggle on a level so bad when it seems and it appears that they have it all.”
“I went to Michigan State because a coach I was being recruited by told me if I go to Michigan State, I wouldn't start. I didn't like the boundaries he put on me. He was probably trying to look out for my best interests, but at the time I took it kind of personal. Not only did I start, but I made captain.”
“If you're not chasing gold, you're not really in a place where you should be competing.”
“When I'm training for a fight, I'm not the same person that I normally am when I'm at home. I'm always thinking about fighting. I'm doing it day in and day out. Pretty soon, my personality starts to change. My temper's a little bit shorter, I don't have a lot of patience for a lot of things.”
“I didn't grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me that made me very angry.”
“Coming into community college, I wasn't sure of where I wanted to go in my future.”
“I've always felt that I had to go out and prove myself in every fight.”
“I believe I can beat Anderson Silva, and I believe that the skills that I have is something he'd have hard time dealing with, but to compete against the guy, first and foremost, would be an honor in and of itself.”
“Sometimes when you open your mouth you show what you're afraid of more than anything.”
“Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.”
“Having a chance to fight for a title is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and I consider myself to be very lucky that I got two chances.”
“I like to have a lot of time to be able to format what I want to do, and how I'm going to do my training camp. When you're doing a camp on short notice, it makes everything else suffer.”
“I took so many years off my fighting career arguing with Dana, trying to get a fight with Shogun Rua, not trying to fight this guy, trying to do all this stuff. At the end of the day, it didn't really matter much. I just lost time.”
“You can have the best college wrestling in the world, but you can have terrible MMA wrestling.”
“You know, MMA doesn't need New York, New York needs MMA. And I say that with all due respect to New York.”
“MMA embodies a lot of disciplines of sports with footwork and with football, especially with the punching technique you get the hand and eye coordination.”
“Wrestling is one of the earliest and oldest martial arts there is.”
“The UFC is not a place for the feint of heart.”
“Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.”