Kimbo Slice Quotes
“Your mind, your heart, and your balls gotta be in one accord” (Kimbo on fighting)
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“I am going to get criticized all the time, but I enjoy MMA and try to represent the sport the best way I can. I have kids. I want to be the best kind of example I can be.
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“I come from a bare-knuckle background, so fighting with gloves is like hitting with mittens.”
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I still consider myself a baby at this game. Those guys probably know how to run circles around me, but I can bang with the best. And I’m not a one-dimensional fighter anymore. I used to have just a hammer. But now I’ve got a hammer, a tape measure, a screwdriver, a glue gun. Now I’ve got some tools in the belt.”
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I think each fighter (is effective) and I never underestimate our opponent. You know, if I was training someone to fight me, that’s what I would work on. I would have my opponent try to take me to the ground, but that’s where they’re going to underestimate me you know.
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I have a great impression of Bas. Bas is the man. You know what I’m saying? Can’t get a better trainer, a better coach a better adviser of the sport and of the game. I mean he explains everything to me why. And to my knowledge I can pick it up better. I can understand the cause and the effect of everything, and I wouldn’t want to change that. (On training with Bas Rutten)
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“I had to take care of the family, I needed to work and establish some kind of financial income as soon as possible and school was taking a little bit too long. Without college, making it into the NFL is almost impossible, so I let dead dogs lie and moved toward something else.
I didn’t really know what the outcome was going to be. I wasn’t going to streetfight forever. It was just to get by, to keep from pulling the rest of my hair out … to keep from really going down that wrong road where I would wind up in jail or dead. I don’t condone streetfighting to kids. I want them to go to a dojo or school or gym.”
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“I don’t know nothing about that; these are some tough guys. My last fight was supposed to be easy too, and I got knocked out in 14 seconds. I knew I got the bull’s-eye on my back with these guys, so I’m training hard and working to get myself in shape.” (on fans being suspicious Kimbo would be given an easy path to an “Ultimate Fighter” finale)
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“Life goes on. I need more patience in there, but I’m like most of the guys in here: confident. That’s what this whole sport is about. I guess what I’ve learned is that people will love you in this sport, win or lose, and long as you’re going to get in there and fight hard. They respect that. That’s what I’m trying to do.” (on his loss to Seth Petruzelli)
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You know, it’s a free country. You know, everyone’s entitled to their own opinion.(on Dana White saying BJ Penn would destroy Kimbo, which was before Kimbo was going to fight James Thompson)
