Tim Kennedy

“I have a pretty amazing life. Even back-to-back deployments - Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey - it's still pretty rewarding.”

“I'm endorsing Col. Maness for United States Senate because of his deeply held commitment to the constitutional rights and principles our nation was founded upon.”

“The people that are close to me, the people that I spend most of my time with, they're all really like-minded people.”

“Kettlebells are the best for everything. We do snatches and swings with them for explosiveness and hamstring and lower back strength, and we'll also throw them into conditioning circuits where I'll do a burpee holding the kettlebells and transition into a 2-handed snatch.”

“I know I'm not a marquee name, and I'm looked past by most guys.”

“I hit hard, and I'm hard to take down.”

“I make, like, three or four times more when I don't fight than when I do fight. And, I'm one of the higher-paid guys in the UFC, which is remarkably tragic and pathetic.”

“If you've been hit, if you've been put down, if you've lost, that next time you come out, you have to make a testament: you have to make a demonstration, a showing, that it's not going to happen again.”

“I love to deadlift, and it's a huge part of my training because it works every muscle in the body.”

“I'm competitive when I fight, but I don't get emotionally involved.”

“Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time.”

“I've fought guys that I like. When you're fighting a guy that you don't like, you have to be able to separate certain aspects of it.”

“I want to earn a top-contender status in the UFC, so I have to fight the best.”

“I'm very disciplined in the approach I take for my training.”

“Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward.”

“I think obstacle courses in general are a blast, and I love the Green Beret one; I've done it - I don't know - 20, 30, 40 times. I'm always trying to break my time from the last one or use a new technique to get through a certain obstacle.”

“I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.”

“I've been to Afghanistan and Iraq a few times, and then I've done deployments elsewhere - with Special Forces, we go all over the place.”

“I always have that nagging feeling of wanting to go back and getting my long gun back and be a sniper on a Special Forces ODA, which is the greatest job in the world, but I have some goals in MMA that I set out to do, and I'm not going to stop until I get them.”

“I was deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq with British Special Forces Units. I have great respect for the British military and the country as a whole, so I don't have anything negative to say about that.”