“I’m not a liar; I’m a truth teller.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m the king troll: I troll everybody.”
― Colby Covington
“My pace alone is unstoppable. No one can keep my pace.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m the bad guy of the division.”
― Colby Covington
“I know I’m going to lose friends, and I’m going to go on the road less traveled with less people. But at the end of the day, I’m not trying to make friends; I’m trying to make the most money possible.”
― Colby Covington
“Super villains and bad guys win in real life.”
― Colby Covington
“You can’t come in and invade people’s personal space because of free speech.”
― Colby Covington
“When I fight, people are going to watch me fight. They’re not gonna turn the channel to ‘Real Housewives of OC’ like they will other fighters.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m the biggest draw. I do the biggest numbers in this division, and it’s not even close. There’s a reason all these guys want to fight me. They don’t want to fight Tyron Woodley. Because I’m the biggest fight and the biggest draw in the division.”
― Colby Covington
“I’ve really taken a lot of time to work on my Karate, worked on my kickboxing, and Muay Thai.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m not out to please everyone.”
― Colby Covington
“There’s always going to be cliques – everywhere you go, there’s gonna be cliques; there’s gonna be people that gravitate towards each other.”
― Colby Covington
“Brazil hates me. Oh, big deal. Cry me a river, build a bridge, and walk over it.”
― Colby Covington
“’Star Wars’ is for nerds and virgins.”
― Colby Covington
“My schtick is trolling people. I love getting a rouse out of people and making them angry.”
― Colby Covington
“If you have a sleeping disorder, just get TyQuil: Tyron Woodley, the gossip girl.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m the ultimate professional.”
― Colby Covington
“Every time the UFC offers something, I just take it.”
― Colby Covington
“I’ve never asked for more money, not one time in my career. I fought Demian Maia for $30,000. The No. 2 guy in the world, I was fighting for $30,000. So I don’t care about money.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m in this to be the best fighter in the world, to put on entertaining shows, and to please the fans.”
― Colby Covington
“Everybody’s calling me out. Why do you think everybody wants to fight me? I’m the money fight.”
― Colby Covington
“I think that people live in safe spaces these days; they don’t want to deal with the controversy and the drama.”
― Colby Covington
“Usman’s a scrub, man. He’s not relevant. No one cares about him. People don’t want to see him fight.”
― Colby Covington
“In the wrestling world, we say the Judo guys are just the leftover wrestlers that couldn’t make the wrestling team.”
― Colby Covington
“Being at American Top Team, I get the best fighters and best trainers in the world.”
― Colby Covington
“As far as standup goes, I really feel like I can stand and bang and trade with anybody in the game.”
― Colby Covington
“I don’t really feel like rankings mean anything.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m looking for three belts. I’m looking to do something that’s never been done in this sport. I wanna go down to 155. I wanna go up to 185 and take the belt.”
― Colby Covington
“I’d love to go to Russia and silence that crowd and give the Russian fans something to cry about.”
― Colby Covington
“Robert Whittaker hasn’t been that impressive. He got knocked out by choir boy Stephen Thompson.”
― Colby Covington
“I know that my grappling is up there with any grappler in the division.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m not just a wrestler anymore. I’m a very well-rounded fighter.”
― Colby Covington
“I’ll use wrestling if I need to in fights, but maybe I’ll fight another wrestler, and you’ll find out how good my striking is.”
― Colby Covington
“Everybody in the world knows how good I am.”
― Colby Covington
“Tyron Woodley knows how good I am.”
― Colby Covington
“I’d probably be, like, a 2-to-1 favorite over Woodley if we fought.”
― Colby Covington
“Demian Maia is a one-trick pony.”
― Colby Covington
“Tyron Woodley can’t top me, and Demian Maia has no chance to stop me.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m always training, whether I’m training my mind, or I’m training my body. I’m always doing something.”
― Colby Covington
“If I can’t do one thing, which is a lower body exercise, then I’m gonna use my upper body, and I’m gonna get stronger upper body. If I’m not getting stronger upper body, I’ll be working on my cardiovascular – swimming or other exercises where I can get my heart rate up.”
― Colby Covington
“If the UFC wanted to give me Warlley Alves, I would show them how chump change he is. And I’d show them how much of a fluke it was that he caught me in a lucky submission.”
― Colby Covington
“Ben Askren is a joke. The guy has no skills.”
― Colby Covington
“It gets a little tough when you’re cutting weight to travel all over the place, when you want to focus on really getting yourself ready to peak for your fight.”
― Colby Covington
“It’s not OK to condone violence because of free speech.”
― Colby Covington
“You can’t come up and attack someone because of free speech.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m a company man. I’ll go wherever the UFC wants me to go.”
― Colby Covington
“Ben Askren, the only thing we have in common… I have a real belt. He has some belts from back in the day that don’t even matter anymore.”
― Colby Covington
“Every time the UFC brings me out, I’m always professional. I’m always on time. I make weight.”
― Colby Covington
“There’s never any issues with Colby ‘Chaos’ Covington. I always do the right things.”
― Colby Covington
“Who retires before they even get to the UFC? Losers, that’s who.”
― Colby Covington
“You can’t live off your past.”
― Colby Covington
“The real reason Tyron Woodley doesn’t want to fight me is because the last time we were in the gym together, I broke him.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m the most hated guy in the division.”
― Colby Covington
“If the UFC doesn’t like what I’m doing, it is what it is.”
― Colby Covington
“I can beat people on the feet; I can beat people on the ground. It doesn’t matter.”
― Colby Covington
“Guys have a lot more to worry about when they’re fighting me than they do fighting Khabib. He’s just one-dimensional.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m the most well-rounded fighter on the planet.”
― Colby Covington
“I get paid a lot of money to go in there and fight on pay-per-view. I’m not fighting in the street.”
― Colby Covington
“All these guys that want to act tough and act like they’re hard in the street, that’s cool, man. I’m glad you want to act hard, and your emotions are driving crazy, but you need to get out of your feelings, nerds.”
― Colby Covington
“At the end of the day, we’re professional prizefighters – stop acting like street thugs. We’re not going to fight in the streets.”
― Colby Covington
“Ricardo Liborio is a joke.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m ATT to the bone. I have my close circle of people, my clique – Jorge Masvidal, Mike Brown, Dan Lambert. I’m not friends with everybody. It’s a gym, but this is a one-man sport.”
― Colby Covington
“Brazil is a dump.”
― Colby Covington
“I’ve trained hundreds of hundreds of rounds of sparring at American Top Team.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m a bad person.”
― Colby Covington
“I don’t care about people’s feelings, and I’m triggering people worldwide.”
― Colby Covington
“Malki Kawa, he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He doesn’t know how to do business.”
― Colby Covington
“I’ve got a lot of respect for Brazil.”
― Colby Covington
“I say a lot of truth, and I say something because I mean it.”
― Colby Covington
“I always have a reason for why I do something.”
― Colby Covington
“There’s no one in the division that can beat me; not even the champion can beat me.”
― Colby Covington
“I’ll fight anyone they put in front of me, man. I’m here to fight and prove that I’m the best in the world.”
― Colby Covington
“In my mind, I do have a lot higher wrestling than Woodley. We’ve wrestled before, and it wasn’t competitive, and that’s honest.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m a completely evolved fighter.”
― Colby Covington
“I like fighting, man. I didn’t get into this sport not to fight. I enjoy fighting; I actually enjoy getting in the cage.”
― Colby Covington
“I feel like I’m a very dominant fighter.”
― Colby Covington
“I dominate, and I break guys’ wills. When they come to fight me, they know they’re going to be in for a fight, and it’s going to be a test of wills.”
― Colby Covington
“I was actually born in Sacramento, in Rocklin, which is a suburb of Sacramento. I lived there for the first 8 years of my life.”
― Colby Covington
“The guys at Team Alpha Male, they’re my friends. I have a lot of respect for those guys.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m the super villain of the whole entire UFC.”
― Colby Covington
“Everybody wants to watch me.”
― Colby Covington
“I don’t think about the negative in my life. I just think about the positives.”
― Colby Covington
“It’s going to be an easy fight when I finally get my hands on Tyron Woodley.”
― Colby Covington
“I live with no regrets.”
― Colby Covington
“GSP, that little syrup sucker, he can come get this. He thinks he’s the greatest welterweight of all time. I have something else to say about that. I’ll destroy him.”
― Colby Covington
“Nothing about Ben Askren impresses me. He’s a one-dimensional fighter. He’s never hurt a fly.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m at the top of the UFC mountain.”
― Colby Covington
“Sao Paulo is a dump. That’s a known fact.”
― Colby Covington
“First off, I don’t consider Tyron Woodley a teammate. He trains with Duke Roufus; Roufus is in his corner every fight. He’s been doing his training camps at Roufusport. He has an ATT affiliate in St. Louis, but OK, whatever. Just because he branded an ATT so he can make some money, and he had an investor, I don’t consider that a teammate.”
― Colby Covington
“The difference between me and Tyron Woodley is that Tyron Woodley fights nervous; he fights scared. He doesn’t wanna get tired, so the thing with Tyron Woodley is that he doesn’t know how to push the pace. He doesn’t have cardio. He doesn’t have heart. He has a heart, but he doesn’t have heart. There’s a difference.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m all about Trump.”
― Colby Covington
“The division needs a guy like me. It’s a bunch of good guys, and I’m the only bad guy in the division. There always has to be a bad guy in every movie.”
― Colby Covington
“You have to have a character; you have to build your character. If you understand the pro wrestling scheme of things, then you understand what the promoting is. These guys are friendly backstage, but as soon as the cameras turn on, it’s a whole different story: you become that character.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m the only fighter to ever go to the White House and meet with a sitting president.”
― Colby Covington
“I’m not a yes man. When the UFC says, ‘Jump,’ I’m not saying, ‘How high,’ because that’s not fair to me.”
― Colby Covington
“The UFC thinks they run off their brand, but that’s not true. The UFC runs off the fighters, so hopefully, these fighters take notice and how I’m going about my business.”
― Colby Covington
“I say what a lot of people want to say but can’t say. I’m just a voice of the people.”
― Colby Covington
“I don’t ever cross the line. I step right up to it. I put my toes on the line, but I don’t ever cross that line. There are some barriers you just don’t cross – you don’t talk about religion; you don’t talk about race. Those are lines I will never cross.”
― Colby Covington
“Sprinkle in a bit of pro wrestling in MMA is good. You get the fans talking. They want that drama.”
― Colby Covington
“I don’t train to be an All-American. I train to be the best.”
― Colby Covington
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