Chael Sonnen is a fashionable face of MMA who was born on April 3, 1977. He is a notable American retired mixed martial artist and now working for ESPN as an MMA analyst. After a hard effort, he succeeds in becoming a top challenger in both the UFC Light heavyweight and middle divisions.
Moreover, he fought in the Pancrase, WEC, and recently for Bellator MMA. Being one of the best all-time mixed martial artists, he never won a UFC Championship. Still, Mauricio Rua, Paulo Filho, Nate Marquardt, Wanderlei Silva, Michael Bisping, and Quinton Jackson are his victories.
You can check the best 98 quotes by Chael Sonnen below.
“Every time you win, you get another fight.
Every time you get a fight, you get promotion, marketing, and publicity.
Those things are what produces stars.”“Accosting anyone in public might be regrettable.
Accosting a gangster can be hazardous.”“There’s a brotherhood that comes with this sport, but fighting Anderson Silva is a lot like eating Chinese food: twenty minutes after I do it, I’m going to want to do it again.”
“I thought if you tapped out, you lost the round.
Come to find out, you actually lose the fight.”“You can never have the comeback if you don’t have the retirement.”
“Jealousy is a heck of a thing.
There’s a reason it’s one of the deadly sins.”
“Triangle chokes are the refuge for cowards.
I would never sink to that level of locking my legs around a man and squeezing.”“I train every day but Christmas.
I’m not the guy who gets a contract signed and then trains for a fight.
I’m at practice every single day, whether I’ve had a match or not.”“I don’t walk around gazing into cameras and telling people I’m the best boxer in the world just to hear myself talk.
I say it for the same reason they put warnings on packaging of cigarettes, because fighting Chael Sonnen may be detrimental to one’s health.”“I would never degrade the sport or my opponent by reading my injury list before or after the bout.
I’ve always felt it’s a very underhanded thing to do, and it’s a very cowardly thing to do, to come out and say, ‘I’m hurt,’ particularly if you win a fight.”“I’m candy-coated poison, and you should not believe anything else.”
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“If your body generates testosterone naturally, fantastic.
Mine doesn’t.”“My ideal fight would be against the smallest guy with the most awful record in the largest venue for the most ridiculous payout.
I adore easy fights.”“I was in Las Vegas when the Nogueira brothers first touched down in America.
There was a bus – this is a true story.
There was a bus that drove up to a red signal, and Little Nog tried to feed it a carrot as Big Nog was caressing it.
He mistook it for a horse.
This actually occurred.”“All medicine is designed to help you feel better.
It would be malpractice if it accomplished the opposite.”“Fighting is merely an expression.
It’s a type of communication, which is why it’s called martial arts.
It’s an art form.”“I’m a better fighter than Jon Jones.”
I’m more talented than Sean Combs.
“I’m better than John Holmes.”“There were years when my father didn’t make a hundred grand – or barely made a hundred grand – and while we had a maid, she only came twice a week.”
What do you believe happened the last five days?
Do you believe the dishes washed themselves?
“Do you think those clothing found their way into the hamper?”“I used to be a great fan of the regional scene when I was a kid.”
I read ‘Pro Wrestling Illustrated,’ watched Portland Wrestling, and did whatever else I could.”“In the year 2000, I aspired to be an Olympian in boxing.”
I never bring it up.”“As a fighter, it makes no difference whether you go first or last, or if you walk out first or second.”
It’s never a factor or anything you feel cheated about.
Nobody would care, in my opinion.
“The task remains the same.”“I’ve had rib injuries before, but never a broken one.”
I’ve dislocated it and popped it, and even that, which is a major step down from broken, hurts so much.
However, you are unable to move.
You can’t even breathe fully or take a deep gulp of air.”“I have never sought favor from the audience and will never do so.”
“Every time there’s a big battle in wrestling, boxing, or MMA, both guys feel certain they’re going to win.
They genuinely believe it.”“I’m not sure what’respect’ means.
That seems like something a youngster on the street says as he prepares to take your coat and shoes.”“The human race is beginning to resemble a school of hairy piranhas as a result of both hipster culture and Facebook culture.”
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“They used to call me ‘foreman’ when I was young, not because I was in charge, but because I did the work of four men.”
“My father was a plumber.”
That’s a lot of labor.
He never missed a workday.
I will never dishonor him by failing to attend an athletic competition with a time limit of 25 minutes.
If you have to withdraw from a combat, you should be penalized.
If you don’t show up, it should count as a failure on your record.”“I’m a tremendous Trump supporter.”
“Speaking: the ability to communicate” is “the greatest kind of expression – or, at least, the most common that we have as humans, what distinguishes us from the animals.”
“There are regulations that say, ‘If a fighter becomes old, slows down, and no longer looks the same, he can never come back.’
That bothers me.”“I was in a situation where I was hardly doing any damage when the ref stopped me.”
It’s simply a game.”“I used to train with Bryan Caraway, and I really like him.”
“I consider him to be a buddy.”“Brock Lesnar has built a profession out of refusing to do media and being unapproachable.”
“I grew raised in a tournament environment, so I’m a tournament man.”
“All of our careers finish the same way: face down and humiliated.”
“Fans don’t always know what they want.”
“The fight lasts about 15 minutes.”
It takes 90 days to build up.
It does so for a reason.”“I’ve boxed competitively.”
It’s absolutely Plan B for me, but I can box.”“I’m a competitor.”
“Georges St-Pierre is the best fighter in history.”
“The ache you get after a good fight or struggle is the best sensation in the world.”
You could sit and whine about it, but you feel so accomplished.”“Werdum is vulnerable to being knocked out in any bout because to his recklessness, but that’s also what makes him so incredibly exciting.”
“You start out fighting at the YMCA, which is a very typical path for a fighter’s career.”
You proceed to the dog park.
You enter a coliseum.
You return to the YMCA on your way out, and then you end at the dog park.”“The only thing more adorned than Floyd Mayweather’s pay-per-view purchases is Floyd Mayweather’s total worth.”
However, his spending habits are real.”“People say to me, ‘Well, you’re only at your position because you can talk well.’
First and foremost, you may be correct.
But, secondly, do I have to apologize for this?
No.”“One aspect of wrestling that I grew up with that we put a lot of attention on was the takedown.”
But you might win an Olympic gold medal and never score a takedown, and I’m not sure MMA fans are aware of that.”“A double leg in MMA is not the same as a double leg in wrestling since the position is different.”
You’re standing up rather than hunched down; you’re slipping a punch rather than grabbing a guy’s elbow and performing a classic elbow pull or slide-by in wrestling.”“Wrestlers tend to do well in MMA because they are just strong men.”
It’s not like karate, where they’ve spent their entire lives pounding the air; with wrestling, you get a hold of another human being every day.”“The type of wrestler who will perform well in a combat oriented event like MMA is one who can explode through – doesn’t need to spend time on the mat – attack his opponent, knock him off his feet, and immediately go on top.”
“I vote Republican.”
“I’m a Catholic, and not because I happened to wake up that way.
I’m not going to be persuaded on any subject, let alone that.”“If he doesn’t have a path to the title, I’m not going to be one of the ones who hangs around.”
“I’ve had a lot of conflicts, and not all of them have gone my way.”
“When you say something like, ‘Listen, I didn’t know.’
I had no idea what the regulations were.’
That is correct.
That’s a strong defense.
“Only once.”
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“It’s a win whenever you can elicit a strong reaction and want someone to tune in, whether it’s to see you win or be beaten up – and I’ve been on both ends of that.”
“What you don’t want is for someone to be unconcerned.
It’s horrible when they have no feelings at all.
Even if they like you or dislike you, it’s still a poor sign.
It has to be a powerful emotion in one way or another.”“I would rather be the heel.”
“I want to make money for the UFC.”
“I owe nothing to the UFC.”
Nothing.
I owe them a lot.”“Lance Armstrong did a number of things, one of which was giving himself cancer.”
“I see a lot of people come out and try to replicate me, duplicate me, and give it the old college effort, but there’s only one Chael Sonnen.”
“I’m a God-fearing man who has attended church every Sunday since I was a boy.”
But if I ever discovered that God was concerned in any way with a possibly unlawful fistfight on Saturday night, I would be so dissatisfied that I would have to reassess my entire belief system.”“If you openly criticize a Brazilian, you will be fighting that Brazilian.”
That’s part of their culture.”“I’m not interested in money or celebrity.”
“I’m only interested in winning the world title.”“I’m a wrestler, so I’m used to not getting paid, and I’m used to performing five or six competitions a day and paying someone else to get in.”
“Every fight day, I basically stay in my room the entire day and sleep.”
I sleep as late as I can, which isn’t very late because I’m an early riser.
But I try to stay in bed as much as possible.
I normally don’t eat on the day of the fight.
I don’t eat anything till after the battle.”“I don’t think I’ve ever had a better sport experience than coaching ‘The Ultimate Fighter.'”
I only got to do it twice, but I was able to form bonds that will last a lifetime.”“I was never a bully; I would challenge anyone at any time.”
It didn’t matter if he was the world’s best or the worst.
If someone wanted to fight, I’d show up and do it.”“I will never hope to walk into a room and be greeted with cheers.”
“I don’t mind getting booed.”
“I will not pretend to be someone I am not.”
I’m not going to do anything just to please the audience.”“This man is a chicken, Jose Aldo.”
I can’t tell you how talented Jose Aldo is, but he doesn’t believe it.”“When Georges St-Pierre retired and Jon Jones was unavailable, I had Jose Aldo, the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter.”
That’s how highly I regard him.”“I wouldn’t mock someone if they were weak.”
I wouldn’t bully anyone.”“I’m not going to sidestep anyone, I’m not going to back down from anyone at any weight, and most importantly, I’m not going to target a weaker guy.”
“I believe I can defeat any man.”
“I don’t want to be an afterthought.”
“No one wants to go up against Brian Stann.”
It’s no secret that I’m not the only guy.”“I have two 10-8 rounds left against Anderson Silva.”
That is the truth.
At middleweight, I am unrivaled.”“I’ve never gotten blowback for my statements.”
I get compliments.”“Jon Jones’ skill set is one-of-a-kind.
Jon Jones goes out there and does video game maneuvers that the commentators haven’t seen before and can’t even call.”“Ronda is a simple and straightforward boxer.”
She is, nonetheless, a skilled competitor.”“In my opinion, Cain Velasquez is the greatest scary power in heavyweight battle history.”
“I enjoy watching wrestling matches.”
However, in every level of wrestling, including Division I, you enter an empty and frigid gym, roll out a mat, and place ten chairs on each side.
It’s a dual meet, and it’s difficult to portray it as a major event.”“It doesn’t matter if I’m Anderson Silva’s rival or not; I’m also quite objective.”
And I’m not going to take something from someone who has earned it.
Anderson Silva has earned the title of “Greatest of All Time.”
And they are simply the facts.”“As fighters, the harsh fact is that there are times in the cage when we want to get out.
There are times when we’ve had enough and want to leave, and we may recognize defeat.”“No one breaks in a battle and returns in the same fight.”
You’re done for the night once you break.
You have to return.
You need to take a shower.
You must return home.
You must review, wait three or four months, and then try again.
But the fact that Anderson Silva falls down in that fight and still manages to win is incredible.”“I didn’t get to attend school functions as a kid.
I was unable to attend any dances.
I’ve never been invited to a party.
I had never been to a party until I came to college and threw one.”“All sin and all crime stem from the same thing: ‘I made a decision.’
‘I decided it was fine.'”“We begin to decline as individuals, and especially as athletes, around the age of 25.”
If you’re really lucky, you might be able to bump that up to 27 or 28.”“Guys are always envious of opportunities, but they never want to walk up to the mound and gesture to the fans and tell them where they’re going to smash the ball.”
I will.
“I’ll make the call.”“I’m always hearing pundits criticize Trump, saying things like, ‘He’s brazen, aggressive, and successful,’ and none of those are true.
It can be summed up in one word: bravery.
He is brave.”“Sports are, for the most part, for youngsters, and if you can extend your career, you’re really fortunate.”
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“Brian Stann is a wonderful person.
I voted for him for President of the United States in 2008, and I plan to do so again in 2012.”“I adore America.”
“When I’m a fan, I come to boo.”
I don’t come to applaud; I come to heckle.”“I love getting into the ring hurt, sick, or weary and figuring out how to win anyhow.”
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