A biography for Sean Stricklandhasn’t been written yet.
“I don't really watch fights. I just like to do it.”
“People care about the perception we give off. And the perception Izzy gives off is that he's a superstar.”
“Five rounds are a little fun. The last round is the funnest. You get so tired, you don't care about getting hit.”
“After I'm done with MMA, I probably will work on rewiring my brain, maybe finding more value in human life. Maybe trying to connect more with people.”
“Something will happen where I'll have a bad day or I'll wake up and my knee is throbbing and it will set me back. But for the most part in life, humans are capable of so much and a lot of our limitations are what we put on ourselves.”
“So like Kevin Holland's one of these guys, he sees me and he's scared of me. It's fair, he's a very tall, scary Black man. A part of him scares me, but I can look at him and say, 'Kevin Holland, you scare me, I'm OK with that.'”
“I'm not sexist, I love the women, I'm all about equal opportunity.”
“If someone gives you an IQ test, what do they test? They test you on reading patterns, predictability. When you're sparring, all you're doing is reading patterns and finding out predictabilities. High-level striking is a big IQ test.”
“The thing with Kevin Holland, he doesn't know how to embrace his feelings. He doesn't know how to feel. He's scared of his feelings.”
“I think I'm one of the best strikers in the world.”
“I like to get paid at something I enjoy.”
“Jon Jones should never be allowed to fight in the UFC again. It's a mockery that they let him fight.”
“The way training goes and every fighter who is honest with themselves knows this, but there are some months you feel like you're the best fighter in the world. You'll go for a month or two where you plateau and you don't get better and you'll get in your head 'why am I not getting better?'”
“I don't wear a pearl necklace. I don't drive a BMW. I don't wear designer clothes. So people like me because I represent them.”
“Women don't need to work.”
“I got into fighting because I loved to fight.”
“All the pressure being undefeated, it's just not fun for me.”
“It's one of the things people don't understand is trauma.”
“I go hard on everybody.”
“I'll tell guys, maybe they're 28 years old, maybe 29, and they want to be a UFC fighter. I say, 'Listen, man. I'm going to be straight with you. Chances are, you're going to fight for a couple of years and you're going to end up broke. You'd be better off being an electrician at this rate.'”