Quotes by Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

A Black Belt under the Nogueira Brothers is like saying I got a free toy in my happy meal

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As an athlete, you’ll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That’s a real thing and it happens a lot when we don’t live up to our potential. And that keeps you up at night and can give you years and years of regret. It could be a relationship, it could be a homework assignment, or it could be an athletic competition. If you don’t go out and perform to the best of your ability, it will really bother you.

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As soon as you hear a fighter say, “I’m working smarter, not harder,” you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.

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As soon as you start to get tired, as soon as you start to get behind, as soon as your coach starts yelling at you, a lot of doors open up to quit; you got to find that one reason to stay in that battle, one reason to stay in the fire and fight.

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GSP is good, but don’t get me wrong he better stay at 170 with the other midgetts.

I don’t do camps. Camps are for kids. I don’t sleep in tents or roast marshmallows. I certainly don’t tell ghost stories or own a sleeping bag. But I do work hard every single day.

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I go to practice each and every day, but my intensity is not the same. If I get tired, I’ll go sit down. If I want some water, I’ll go drink it. When I’m in training camp, I don’t. I’ve got to push through being tired. I’ve got to push through being uncomfortable. That’s really it. It’s largely a mentality. You kind of flip that switch and turn your intensity up. Your heart rate goes up. Your reps go up. And you start to get in the frame of mind.

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Practice

Tired

I should be the reigning champion. I punch a guy 300 times, he punches me a couple and they call him the champion? In what parallel universe does that make you the winner? I am the champion. I’ve been the champion. Anderson’s ribs have the exact same problem that his hands and his feet have, they’re attached to a cowardly person.

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Hands

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 pulled up to a red light, and Little Nog tried to feed it a carrot, while Big Nog was petting it. He thought it was a horse. This really happened. He tried to feed a bus a carrot, and now you’re telling me this country has computers? I didn’t know that.

Brother

Country

Horse

I went through a change in my life and my career where I finally understood how to train and prepare. I finally understood what it meant, and I’ve had so many fantasies about being able to go back and be 16 again. And redo parts of my high school career. Redo all of my college career. Redo my attempt to make an Olympic team.

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Quotes by Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen

A Black Belt under the Nogueira Brothers is like saying I got a free toy in my happy meal

As soon as you start to get tired, as soon as you start to get behind, as soon as your coach starts yelling at you, a lot of doors open up to quit; you got to find that one reason to stay in that battle, one reason to stay in the fire and fight.

GSP is good, but don’t get me wrong he better stay at 170 with the other midgetts.

I don’t do camps. Camps are for kids. I don’t sleep in tents or roast marshmallows. I certainly don’t tell ghost stories or own a sleeping bag. But I do work hard every single day.

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