Top 98 Eddie Alvarez Quotes December 20, 2020 by Krista Aniston Leave a Comment “I think bullying in general is for cowards.”― Eddie Alvarez“I don’t have a nickname. But, hey, they can call me what they want – The Silent Assassin, The Underground King. In Japan, they call me American Knuckle Star. Call me what you want.”― Eddie Alvarez“It’s MMA – anything can happen. You can throw a punch from one knee, a punch from anywhere.”― Eddie Alvarez“My biggest fear as a fighter is to be knocked out in front of millions of people. But after it actually happened, there’s this calmness about you that says everything is OK.”― Eddie Alvarez“I want the best guys the promotion has to offer, put them in front of me, and I’ll beat them.”― Eddie Alvarez“Having your worst nightmares kind of come true is truly liberating.”― Eddie Alvarez“Out of nowhere, they made an interim belt and had Lee fight Ferguson. This is very odd for me; what went on there? You know. I don’t know what went on there.”― Eddie Alvarez“Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I’d walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend’s door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.”― Eddie Alvarez“The fans, man, the fans have a little different way of thinking. They really applaud the spirit of fighters, and that put a huge influence on the type of energy I fought with, rather than if I won or lost. America’s a real win-or-lose culture, where with the Japanese, fighting with spirit is enough.”― Eddie Alvarez“I was never the most technical; I was never the best at one aspect at this sport, but what I was always good as was negating people’s strengths and putting them in terrible situations where they’re uncomfortable.”― Eddie Alvarez“Fighting, for me, is not a career – it’s an opportunity. I’m going to take full advantage of it and do it as long as I can. As long as my body lets me and I’m healthy enough to do it naturally, I’ll do it.”― Eddie Alvarez“The fighters and the fights are what makes UFC great.”― Eddie Alvarez“I never prepare according to how I feel for a fight. I always prepare to be a better me.”― Eddie Alvarez“I never take a round off or a run off or a push-up off; that’s just not in me.”― Eddie Alvarez“There’s not a single strike that good preparation can’t negate.”― Eddie Alvarez“It’s hard when you win the title to not think, ‘I’m here. Now what do I do?’”― Eddie Alvarez“When I joined UFC, I said I want to be involved in fights where millions of fans are watching, biting their fingernails, thinking, ‘What the heck is going to go on here?’”― Eddie Alvarez“There’s a part of martial arts where we need humility and respect.”― Eddie Alvarez“Conor McGregor – this guy is so offensive minded and never on the defense that whenever you put him on the defense, he gets so flustered and so upset.”― Eddie Alvarez“I’m proud of both sides, and they are both really well known to be fighting heritages, so I tell everyone all the time – they say, ‘What are you’? – I say I’m Irish. I’m Puerto Rican. I guess I was born to fight.”― Eddie Alvarez“I’m a whole lot more than just Spanish or Irish or whatever, but definitely, it’s given me help. It’s given me a push, and I’m very proud of my Spanish heritage.”― Eddie Alvarez“I’ve got the fighting Irish, and Puerto Ricans are some of the best fighters in the world. I’m proud of who I am, but it doesn’t define me as a person.”― Eddie Alvarez“I don’t like going to 155; I do it because everyone else does.”― Eddie Alvarez“We got four-ounce gloves here. It’s not hard to knock someone out.”― Eddie Alvarez“If you’re not successful at a certain weight, it rarely has anything to do with gaining or losing 10 pounds. It’s something inside of you that you need to fix in order to win. It rarely has anything to do with cutting 10 pounds.”― Eddie Alvarez“Although I’m shorter, all of my weight I carry in my back and my butt. That’s where most of my weight is.”― Eddie Alvarez“Fighting in general, but especially when I was younger, was tough to deal with because there are so many external things going on that want to control you that most people have no clue about.”― Eddie Alvarez“I don’t need to be told what I am or what I should do or if I beat this guy it means I’m good or if I lose to that guy it means I’m bad. I’m at peace with myself, and I know what I do every day in my training will speak for itself, and success will be a byproduct.”― Eddie Alvarez“There’s a lot of guys in the UFC who are good at one thing, and they get matched up stylistically well.”― Eddie Alvarez“I’ve been fighting the best guys, so I would like a gimme fight.”― Eddie Alvarez“In this sport, the good thing about the UFC and MMA in general is a lot of it’s based on perception.”― Eddie Alvarez“If I can put the right guy with the right mouthpiece in front of the right opponents, we can build a champion, but he doesn’t really have to beat the best guys; we just have to give him the right matchups.”― Eddie Alvarez“You win a world title, you beat the best guys in the world, and a lot of these fans are kind of misconstrued about who are the best fighters in the world.”― Eddie Alvarez“I’ll beat a bunch of good guys, and then I’ll get a ton of fans come up to me and go, ‘Do you think you can beat Conor McGregor?’ And I’m like, ‘Oh my God. You guys are disillusioned.’ They think because this man’s popular he’s good.”― Eddie Alvarez“The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It’s about what’s inside – what really is inside.”― Eddie Alvarez“I boxed. I did track and field; I did basketball, football, any sport I was able to sign up for.”― Eddie Alvarez“I won my first 10 fights by knockout. The money was getting larger at the same time.”― Eddie Alvarez“The right thing to do is just ask what you can give, and then let things manifest in the time they’re supposed to.”― Eddie Alvarez“I had to fight Donald Cerrone, Anthony Pettis, Gil Melendez, Rafael Dos Anjos. I had to fight these guys in order to prove myself in order to get a title shot.”― Eddie Alvarez“I know what I can do at 155.”― Eddie Alvarez“I’ve knocked a ton of guys out. I know the power I have and the advantages I have against the best in the world.”― Eddie Alvarez“I rarely think that when a guy loses a fight, it’s a weight issue. You can either fight, or you can’t.”― Eddie Alvarez“I don’t want to go that route where I’m going into fights dehydrated. I used to fight at 170 pounds. I was 10-0 at 170 with eight knockouts. I’m not going to listen to somebody from the outside tell me what weight I should be fighting at.”― Eddie Alvarez“I’m a little unconventional; I do things a little differently.”― Eddie Alvarez“I enjoy fights the most once them nerves go away and you settle into the fight. That’s when you can have your fun and be creative and just kind of be yourself.”― Eddie Alvarez“I’m my own biggest critic, so no matter what was being said in the media or being said by fans, I feel the worst when I disappoint myself.”― Eddie Alvarez“I want to fight Gilbert Melendez.”― Eddie Alvarez“The idea is to go out there and win in a dominant fashion. That changes people’s minds, the way they’re thinking about me, and lets people know I’m here to contend for a title.”― Eddie Alvarez“It’s a fist fight – the idea is to go out there and impose my will.”― Eddie Alvarez“With MTV2, every fighter is exposed to millions of people, and they won’t have to take a monster pay cut to do so.”― Eddie Alvarez“I beat Gilbert Melendez, and he got two shots at the title.”― Eddie Alvarez“I want to fight only dangerous guys. Whenever I’ve done that in my career, I’ve stepped up and risen to the challenge.”― Eddie Alvarez“These kinds of fights, these big fights that get everyone talking and interested, these are the fights I want.”― Eddie Alvarez“I want to prove the naysayers wrong. They’re everywhere. And to be honest with you, they’re all I see, and they’re what motivates me.”― Eddie Alvarez“I have a tremendous support from a lot of the Underground fans. They believe in me, they want to see me do well, and they’re behind me. But there are a lot of people out there who don’t believe it, and so I want to separate perception and reality. I want to be able to do that.”― Eddie Alvarez“When I say ‘fighter,’ I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.”― Eddie Alvarez“The truth is, a large majority of the market, I’d guess 80 percent, doesn’t know anything more than what they are sold.”― Eddie Alvarez“I think sports is a quest to find out what really is – not what perceptions are.”― Eddie Alvarez“The business aspect of this sport is a contradiction to what it’s really about, and that’s knowing something for what it is and not just what it looks like.”― Eddie Alvarez“Me? I’m no sob story. I get paid well, and I live comfortably.”― Eddie Alvarez“I will fight whoever the UFC wants me to fight.”― Eddie Alvarez“I will do whatever the UFC tells me to do, but there’s not a doubt in my mind that I can be champion.”― Eddie Alvarez“I want an opportunity to fight the best in the world and make millions of dollars doing it.”― Eddie Alvarez“I think when it comes to re-signing with an organisation, there’s no real compromise if you’re trying to move on.”― Eddie Alvarez“I like to be with my back against the wall in dangerous situations.”― Eddie Alvarez“I really didn’t want to enter the UFC in a fight that nobody really cared about or where people thought I was just going to whoop some guy.”― Eddie Alvarez“The more dangerous the opponent, the better fight I’ve fought. It always made me move in ways I’d never moved before.”― Eddie Alvarez“If your worst fear can come true, and everything can still be OK, then there’s really not much to fear at all.”― Eddie Alvarez“I would love, love, love to watch Conor McGregor fight Floyd Mayweather.”― Eddie Alvarez“Typically, I would say that I’m not defined by one loss and I’m not defined by one win. But I’d be lying if I told you I didn’t harp on the loss at Madison Square Garden.”― Eddie Alvarez“I started this fight career with one objective. When I step inside a ring or an octagon, it is to beat the guy in front of me.”― Eddie Alvarez“Regardless of the magnitude, the crowd, or the pay-per-view sales, the goal is to beat the guy in front of me.”― Eddie Alvarez“I’m not here if Bill Hunter never forced my hand in wrestling. It was a pivotal point in my life.”― Eddie Alvarez“From wrestling, I learned that I was capable of much more than I thought I was.”― Eddie Alvarez“I think it’s important to say that I am genuinely thankful for the time at Bellator.”― Eddie Alvarez“The most comical thing for me, even when I watch movies, is the guy who’s so crazy confident about himself, with the mink jacket – to me, that is so funny. I wish I could be like that. As a fighter, I wish I could do that, so I could make people laugh. But I can’t; it’s not my style.”― Eddie Alvarez“I’ve said it from the very beginning: Fighting the best guys in the world doesn’t pay as good as the circus. I want to join the circus. I’m trying to get that circus money.”― Eddie Alvarez“As far as Nurmagomedov, I just don’t get how you become the No. 1 contender without actually fighting guys who are ranked in the top 10. It kind of baffles me.”― Eddie Alvarez“I can walk into a restaurant and knock five guys out, become 5-0 real quick. It’s about the quality of opponent. You have to beat the right guys to call yourself the No. 1 contender.”― Eddie Alvarez“I’m looking to grab the UFC and pull them back in the direction of Philadelphia.”― Eddie Alvarez“When I fought Nick Thompson, I wasn’t experienced enough. That was the first person that put me in a real fight. Before Nick, nobody had put me in a fight where I had to struggle.”― Eddie Alvarez“The longer I’m in this sport, the more I realize that it’s not about the wins and losses that makes you a good fighter. It’s about putting the time in and fighting the best guys possible and going after them. The outcome will take care of itself.”― Eddie Alvarez“People say I’m good at standup. I don’t even think I’m that great at standup. I just hit hard. I don’t think I’m super technical or anything like that. I got a couple knockouts. I think I just hit hard more than anything.”― Eddie Alvarez“I have a very good ground game and very good wrestling. People just underestimate it. That’s it. I want to keep it like that.”― Eddie Alvarez“Every once in awhile, we all get a bad hand dealt to us.”― Eddie Alvarez“Gray Maynard? Kenny Florian? All these guys, they’re UFC fighters, that’s all. They’re pushed by the UFC, but when they leave the UFC, they’re forgotten. When’s the last time you heard Josh Neer’s name? You haven’t. When’s the last time you heard about Roger Hurerta? You haven’t. They’re no ones anymore.”― Eddie Alvarez“I’ve done it a couple times where I’ve had fight of the year. It’s not what you aspire to.”― Eddie Alvarez“You don’t want to be in a fight of the year. It takes years off your life. But, it’s why fans tune in; it’s why people gravitate toward your fights. It’s why people want to watch you fight. It’s important to get into them, but it’s important to try not to get into too many of them.”― Eddie Alvarez“The first time I fought Mike Chandler, I was thinking about money way too much. I was thinking about the end of my contract. My focus was way off. I didn’t believe in the people that were guiding me.”― Eddie Alvarez“Going in there just to win and put on a boring fight, I don’t want to be related to anything like that.”― Eddie Alvarez“I believe that in order for me to consider myself one of the top ranked lightweights in the world, I have to go out and dominate the fight.”― Eddie Alvarez“The goal never changes. It’s about beating the guy in front of you.”― Eddie Alvarez“Where in normal neighborhoods, they would play stick ball and hockey and baseball, we used to slap box and bring boxing gloves down the street and box each other.”― Eddie Alvarez“I’ve experienced success, I’ve experienced failure, I’ve been a world champion, I’ve fought all over the world; I think I’ve experienced enough that I won’t get in front of a million people and get gunshy.”― Eddie Alvarez“I like to keep a high pace, violent fight. I don’t like to waste time, and I don’t like to go to the judges. I feel like I’ve fought long enough where I can adapt to just about any situation.”― Eddie Alvarez“I’m old school, man. I think, if you want to be the best, then beat the best guys.”― Eddie Alvarez“If they could put us all in a tournament, that’d be the best way, but they’re not going to do that here at the UFC.”― Eddie Alvarez“Money is always a motivating factor, but money has never been my driving force. In my first fight, I paid the promoter in order for me to fight. I was in the hole 300 bucks for that. Money has always been a byproduct of me doing something I love.”― Eddie Alvarez
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