Top 44 Cain Velasquez Quotes

You don’t want the fight to stop on a cut or something like that. You want to finish the fight. You always have the idea that you have the chance to stay in a fight, because one blow can end it all.

You can’t dwell on the past and be down on yourself because you lost. You have to take the positive away from it and see how you can improve yourself moving forward.

Partnering with MetroPCS is a great opportunity for me. It’s great to be partnered with a company that serves a consumer similar to the UFC and my fan base.

Every Mexican fighter has the heart; they work hard with their training, and they never give up. That’s the mentality I always had and always saw growing up.

Let me be clear: MMA training is tough work, and every fighter has had to enter the Octagon with aches and pains as well as exhaustion. This is the game.

I represent hardworking people. That’s who raised me. That’s who I grew up around.

I’m not a boxer.

I would go into practice pushing the body despite any injuries. It’s a good thing but a bad thing. It’s good because your body is quick to adapt, but it’s a bad thing because you are forcing your body, and it can’t recover as well.

Dos Santos just has really good movement. He’s really quick with his hands. He throws good combinations, and he has a lot of power. Combining all of that, it makes it really tough for somebody to fight with him.

I think you learn a lot from losses.

My experience here at the WWE Performance Center has been amazing. I’m just looking forward to being here and learning as much as I can the time that I’m here. I’ve been a fan of the sport since I was a little kid, and now I get to participate in it.

Hard work and sacrifice can get you a long way.

I just have to fight my style of fight, which is a lot of pressure.

I never go into a fight thinking, ‘I have to finish this guy‘ – that’s not a part of my game plan. I go out there and fight the way I fight.

I’m going to be the best fighter I can be and focus on being me.

My life is calm. Once I get home from practice, I just want to spend time with my family.

I think of all my fights as title fights. I don’t think about what can come up afterwards.

Fight night, I have to go out there and perform. I have to go out there and do what I’ve been trained to do. It has to come my way. I have to go out there and take it.

Coaches would have me in the gym do 1,000 kicks for a practice. I would do them until everyone was gone, until I had done all my kicks. People asked me why I would do it – that’s stupid. But my coach told me to do something like that, and I knew it would benefit me, and I would do it.

I think Mark Hunt just has that knockout power, and that’s pretty much it.

My dad had to quit school when he was in third grade. My mom had to quit school. They didn’t know what I needed, and I didn’t know what I needed to keep wrestling and go to school, so that’s why I had to go to community college.

Seeing Mexicans in the media is rare. Seeing role models on TV is rare. So who do we look up to? We’re not seen on football fields or basketball courts. So we look up to fighters; they’re Mexican. They are out there fighting, representing their people, and winning champions. We look up to them.

The hardest fights I’ve had have been in the gym, not in the cage. It keeps you motivated. One day, you’ll go in and feel like you can beat anybody in the world. The next day, you kind of get humbled. That’s what keeps us coming back to train more and more.

Heath Herring is tough as nails, and he fights hard.

Personally, most of my injuries were ones that I sustained during fights in the UFC, not in practice.

I didn’t have a hero playing in sports that looked like me.

I didn’t see anybody in the media or on TV that played sports that looked like me. I didn’t have those things growing up. Now that I’m in that position, I’m happy to be that person if I can.

Know what your strengths are, but also keep in mind what your weaknesses are; always work on your weaknesses.

It’s my heritage overall, my people. Mexicans are known for being hard-working people, showing a lot of heart. I wanted to show people I am Mexican and I’m proud of it.

Where I grew up, we had enough to get by, and we had a lot of love. That took me a long way.

You always try to make your teammates better. You help out your teammates, and they help you out in return. As they get better and better, they can help you more and more. At least, I’ve always seen it that way.

I just look at what’s ahead of me. I don’t think about, ‘For my legacy, I need to do this, this, and this.’ I just focus on every fight and how to win that fight.

You have to work your way up the ladder just like everybody else. Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.

I’m not really too big of a sports fan. Everything I watch is MMA, you know, great fights. But other sports, not really too much.

I just deal with what’s at hand.

I grew up watching my parents work in the fields. That’s where I get my work ethic from, because I saw them work hard my whole life.

In wrestling, I was always competing against bigger guys.

I’m always trying to get better. There’s always room for improvement.

There is always a possibility that you could lose, because the outcome isn’t written yet: you have to go out and write it. If you want it bad enough, if you do the training and prepare yourself to succeed, and do everything in your power to win, you’ll have a better chance of succeeding.

Wrestling has made me very mentally strong, conditioned me really well for MMA, and given me phenomenal balance.

I have the Mexican blood. I’m proud to be Mexican.

When you train the way I do, injuries are going to happen.

I don’t really care who I fight as long as it’s the better guy.

I don’t think about being undefeated; I don’t think about what people say in the media about me, whether it’s good or bad. I just don’t think of it.