“It’s hard for me to fake smile. I personally think I look stupid fake smiling.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Supplements have always been a really big part of my training regimen.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I was the guy that would cram for everything, so I guess I was a bit of a slacker. I was a procrastinator. I spent a lot of all-nighters getting ready for tests.”
― Chuck Liddell
“If you watch fights cage-side, sometimes different punches look better than others. It’s like camera angles. Sometimes some punches look a lot better than they were, and sometimes a solid punch doesn’t look good. So it just depends on your angle.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I have a great time with the kids. I’m always happy when they’re around.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I think, as a fighter, I kept improving. My movements improved, my accuracy improved.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Mountain Dew was my favorite drink through college; it kept me up studying for a lot of tests.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Aldo needed to feel McGregor out. Coming right at him ran into McGregor’s game. I thought he’d start by taking him down and confuse him a little. Maybe he had all that stuff planned, but one combo, and Aldo got caught. That happens, especially with a guy as talented and precise and full of power as Conor.”
― Chuck Liddell
“The fans have been really good to me. I thank everyone for all the support.”
― Chuck Liddell
“People still thank me for the stuff I did for this sport, and I appreciate everything people say.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Someone said Anderson Silva and GSP would be a $12 million fight. I told people that for $12 million, I’d fight them both right now. At the same time. People took that as ‘He’s going to fight again.’ It was a joke. But if you came up with $12 million, yeah, of course I will fight again.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I’ve got a puncher’s chance against anybody.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Numbers have always come easy to me.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I grew up while I was in college. I learned how to take care of myself. I learned how to prioritize things. I learned how to get things done.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I eat more when I’m not training as much. But I get in the gym, and when I feel my gut, I try to eat healthy for some of my meals.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I’m not an emotional fighter.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I do some weightlifting, a lot of different weight stuff, strength and conditioning stuff, a little bit of everything.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I play fantasy football every year.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I started doing martial arts since I was 12, and then I went into wrestling in college. After I met John Hackleman, I started getting really serious about it, and after a few amateur fights, I got an invite to the UFC and have been in love with it ever since.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I do genuinely dislike Tito Ortiz, and I don’t have anything to prove to him.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I’ve never found that getting physical is ever the best response in a bar. You just have to make sure you keep your distance, and if it gets to a point where it gets aggressive, then the best thing to do is go get a bouncer and get the situation resolved intelligently.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Train hard, get good coaching, and don’t forget that its mixed martial arts. Don’t get tied into one style of fighting, and focus on multiple disciplines.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I think some of the most important exercises are all the core exercises that you can do to maximize training in certain areas of your body.”
― Chuck Liddell
“When I’m training for a fight, I work out two or three times a day for five days a week.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I try to take two weeks off after a fight and then get back to working out four or five times a week.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I try to stay in shape and am always consistently working out.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I eat a balanced diet.”
― Chuck Liddell
“When I’m training at home, I have five meals for the day that I just heat up. It’s all planned, and that’s what I eat.”
― Chuck Liddell
“You can actually find a lot of gyms that do teach mixed martial arts. But it’s just like with any martial art – you’ve got to look at the coaches, go watch some classes, see how people treat each other and how the coaches treat the students.”
― Chuck Liddell
“You have to learn your own details before you can teach them.”
― Chuck Liddell
“If I weren’t fighting, I’d be in the business world.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I did well in school, was the captain of the wrestling team and the football team, and always got along well with people, so I’m sure I would have gotten a job in the real world. I probably wouldn’t have liked that, though.”
― Chuck Liddell
“There’s nobody in the world I wouldn’t fight.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Every time I win, I prove something: I’m the best guy in the world at what I do.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Dancing is a lot lower-impact than ultimate fighting, but it takes a lot longer, and I burn the same amount of calories.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I have absolutely no dancing background. I think I took one swing class when I was in college, with a friend of mine. I think I went twice.”
― Chuck Liddell
“My grandpa never got to see me fight. He always thought that I was the best in the world. He always told me that.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I’m one of those guys: I’m out there trying to punch you out and to hurt you, but as soon as I’m done, hopefully there’s nothing wrong with you; I’m hoping that you’re okay.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I’m a fighter, and I’ll always be a fighter, and it’s what I love to do.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I don’t read a lot of MMA news. I try to stay out of it.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I’ve never been intimidated by anyone.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I come from a wrestling background but don’t really use it in most of my fights.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I basically follow a modified Zone Diet. I have my food prepared weekly and eat 6 times a day.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I don’t ever go into a fight wanting to hurt someone. I just want to show them that I am better than them, and if they get hurt, it’s part of the sport.”
― Chuck Liddell
“We run on the beach some days, and others, we run hills behind the gym. We also do several hours of grappling each week as mixed with some intense cardio in the ring.”
― Chuck Liddell
“When it comes to damage, boxing will cause more damage than MMA ever will.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I never expected it, but I’ve gotten paid a lot to do what I love. There are no complaints.”
― Chuck Liddell
“The most excited you’ll ever see me is after knocking a guy out.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I used to be able to pick out the UFC fans when I was in the airport. Now, it could be anybody.”
― Chuck Liddell
“The worst thing is losing because you got tired, because you didn’t work hard enough in training. Ugh, that’s the worst.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I like Glover Teixeira; he’s a former training partner.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Totally different challenges, but being a dad and fighting both wear you out.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Conor McGregor has a big mouth. But I do love the way he fights.”
― Chuck Liddell
“My whole life, I’ve been training for something, whether it be baseball or football or wrestling or martial arts.”
― Chuck Liddell
“It’s a very complex sport, so judging is going to be very complex, too. And not everyone is going to agree all the time on who wins a fight.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I’d like to have all of my losses back. But it’s too late for that.”
― Chuck Liddell
“’Dancing with the Stars’ was hard work. It was interesting and fun, too, but it was hard work.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I don’t like being bad at anything.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I’m competitive at everything.”
― Chuck Liddell
“With the fights I have lost, I always want another shot and think that I can beat them.”
― Chuck Liddell
“A lot of people are blowing Shogun’s fight with Mark Coleman out of proportion. He was coming off an injury, and he gassed early on in his first fight back.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I like aggressive fighters who will come after me.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Everyone is on a fair playing field. It’s safer for athletes, it’s safer for the fighters – it’s just a safer thing for fighters. So I think the USADA thing is good.”
― Chuck Liddell
“It’s one of those things: I’m never gonna get over not fighting, I don’t think, but I’m content with my decision to retire.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I thought I could beat anyone in the world.”
― Chuck Liddell
“That’s one of the reasons I retired. To stick around, the way I was fighting, I would have to start playing it safe. I went out on my shield. That’s the way I liked it. I fought that way my whole career. I don’t want to bore people my last three or four fights.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I’m probably not going to be popular with the fighters with this one, but my biggest problem is guys playing it safe. I understand it from a coach’s standpoint and a manager’s standpoint. I understand why you’d want to play it safe and want to win the fight, win every fight. I get it.”
― Chuck Liddell
“My first contract I was offered by the UFC, or my second contract, it was 1-and-1, 2-and-2, 3-and-3. That’s $12,000 for the year. Don’t complain to me about fighter pay. It was $12,000 for a year, and it was exclusive.”
― Chuck Liddell
“People got to understand, the fighters at the top are the fighters that are supposed to get paid because they’re the guys that are bringing people in, bringing eyes to the TV, getting pay-per-views buys, and putting people in the seats. I mean, that’s what it comes down to.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Everybody doesn’t want to hurt to lower guys from getting paid, but it comes down to, it’s a performance-based business. You get good, you win, then you get paid.”
― Chuck Liddell
“It’s hard for an athlete to quit what he’s done his whole life.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Anderson Silva is a tough guy, man. He’s dangerous. He’s got heavy hands, and he’s not afraid to throw them. He’s a dangerous opponent for anyone.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Mixed martial arts is great, and it’s here to stay.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I was in ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’ with Jack Nicholson. That was fun. I think I made, like, $33 or something. I got to miss a whole day of school, and when you’re a little kid, that’s cool.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I don’t think the itch to fight has ever left me, ever. I mean, I got paid to do what I love for a living, and I got paid very well to do it. So that’s going to always be there. That’s always going to be like, ‘Man, I wouldn’t mind getting out there again.’”
― Chuck Liddell
“I have had people that I was doing some promotion stuff with go, ‘You know, we had an idea. We should have, like, a legends fight.’ It’s always that. That conversation always comes up when we’re talking about doing some promotion for a company or helping them promote their league.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Jon Jones is a great fighter.”
― Chuck Liddell
“As far as losing fights, that’s part of the sport.”
― Chuck Liddell
“You can’t pick and choose who’s going to win or who’s gonna mess up.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Everyone says I drive like my grandfather, but that’s not always a good thing because he didn’t always watch the road because he’d talk to you and look at you. He was a deputy sheriff, a cop, for a long time. So he was always looking around, checking out other things, other than what’s directly in front of him.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I drove motorcycles through college. I didn’t have the money to buy a car.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I drove the Ford Ranger until probably five years after college, till about 2001, when I was almost 30.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I put myself through college.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I hate hearing in a UFC corner, ‘You won the first four rounds; just stay away from him this round.’”
― Chuck Liddell
“I’ve got a family, and I get to enjoy my family, and I get to do different things, trying the movie thing a little bit.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I’ve been on a lot of shows that I like, doing guest appearances and little things. I’m just trying to have fun with being retired.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I tell the guys all the time, ‘if you have a good puncher, all the way in or all the way out.’ Don’t stay there and box.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I think the reasons I retired stay the same. I don’t want to change my style. I can’t take a punch like I used to for whatever reason. I’ve heard all sorts of theories as to why that would happen, but I can’t do it.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I tried in my career to be really good to fans.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I have one way of fighting: I’m going to come after you, put hands on you, and knock you out.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I don’t change my style for anybody.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Some guys are gym fighters, some guys are better in the ring.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I’ve always said that when I retire, I’ll decide in the training room and not after a fight.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I think people liked the way I fight.”
― Chuck Liddell
“My style of fighting is to go down and trying to finish the guy and trying to end fights, not laying up because I’m winning the fight, just keep going after it.”
― Chuck Liddell
“We have come a long way from the first season of ‘The Ultimate Fighter.’”
― Chuck Liddell
“Having ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ was the thing that did it for us, live fighting on TV. That’s what we had to do, was get a live fight on TV. It couldn’t have worked out better.”
― Chuck Liddell
“When I throw the hook, I think of my arm as a whip with a rock attached to the end.”
― Chuck Liddell
“I’ll take what I can get when I go high with a hook, but the side of the head makes a big target, especially if his hands are down.”
― Chuck Liddell
“Several nutrition companies have approached me over the years to endorse a number of different products. Some worked; some didn’t – so I decided to create my own brand.”
― Chuck Liddell
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