Nick Diaz Quotes

What I do is, I fight.

I don’t know how they judge fights sometimes.

I’ve never backed out of a fight in my life. That’s not what I do.

I’m not going backwards in this sport ever, especially in pay. Why would I?

When someone tells you a fighter‘s injured and they tell you to go after an injury, it really throws you off.

I’m trying to live life like a normal person.

Sometimes I’m like, man, I wish I’d just fall off, so people stop talking about me.

I don’t have to worry about being a good role model.

I’m fighting hard, I’m training hard. I’m still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I’m going and I would really like to give back especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.

I’m not no chump.

I don’t owe nobody nothing.

You don’t always come off the way that you want to or look the way you want to. I go out there and just act up and become the evil villain, and I’m calling guys out and stuff. It seems to have worked. I’m getting the fights I want.

I’m not out here trying putting on an act like I’m crazy. In my opinion, everyone else is crazy. They’re the ones who put on an act for you, doing what they’re told in front of the camera.

I think it’s rude of the UFC to try and lowball me and expect me to negotiate a deal while I’m training for a fight.

I felt like my job is to go out there and put on a good show, amazing fights and give an amazing effort and hope that people can recognize that sort of thing, and maybe they would want to find out more.

It’s a really complicated road if you’re an MMA fighter.

I had my mom drive me to practice everywhere. I’m really grateful I had her.

I live a fight life, I can do what I want to win a fight.

I may not be able to keep fighting for money for a living, but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that’s who I am.

I drink 10 pounds of water and sweat out 10 pounds of water every day.

For the most part, since the time I was in EliteXC fighting, maybe there were one or two fights here and there that they had me to win, but for the most part I’ve been an underdog. I’m not a kickboxer so I’m going to lose to a kickboxer. I’m not a wrestler, my wrestling sucks, so I’m going to lose to a wrestler.

I’m the original Conor McGregor. I’m the original model of Conor McGregor. He wouldn’t be who he is if it wasn’t for me. Nothing against him. I’m the original real deal.

There’s no reason for me to come and fight for fun. I don’t do that. That’s not what I do.

You see me. What you see is what you get. You get real martial arts, you get real fighting, you get a real warrior mentality. Some people aren’t mature enough to handle it.

Belts aren’t important. It’s the fights that are important. Important to the fans, important to the show.

As far as MMA, I want to say there’s maybe five guys that do jiu-jitsu that have an actual level of understanding when it comes to boxing.

I don’t care about the Strikeforce belt.

I think for hundreds of years or for a much longer time, people have been fighting, professional athletes have been fighting in a ring. So it’s just the way it should be. There’s no sense in making it a cage.

Stockton is a great fight town because if you drive long enough on some of these roads, you’ll probably see a pretty good street fight.

Once I turned pro, I was like okay, this is not fun and games now.

I’m not fanatical or in love with being an MMA fighter.

I don’t recommend anybody becoming a fighter.

I am a fighter. It’s what I am.

If you don’t find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don’t have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don’t learn how to control your fear.

Martial arts, when I do martial arts, it’s more of a life type of training.

My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs.

I just want to display my skills to the world because I can do it all.

I’m not in love with fighting. I never was.

That’s a disgusting thought to have to fight my brother. I don’t even appreciate being asked about that.

I want to go against the best fighters. That’s why I’m always calling out Georges St-Pierre.

Everybody points their finger at me and says that I’m the crazy guy and this thug.

Stylistically, though, I’ve always liked Carlos Condit, because he at least amounted to at least the level of doing what I do. I mean, but I think he stands a little upright.

I’ve lost fights before where I’m landing more punches and I’m moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn’t seem very consistent to me.

You know, I’m never really 100-percent in any of those fights, because it’s so hard to have perfect preparation for fighting and cutting weight and making 170 pounds, and being in the best shape for training camp and to make that cut.

Every other fighter has a life on the side. I’ve never had another job.

You know what? I’ve never paid taxes in my life. I’m probably going to go to jail.

I’m not hard to find. I’m on Snapchat and Instagram every day.

I love jiu-jitsu, and I love my team.

You can’t lie to the fans. They know what they want to see.

I did aikido when I was four years old.

Give me some real chocolate. Real fighters eat real chocolate.

I’ve learned from my mistakes in the past, why I thought I’ve lost fights before.

I don’t like to hurt people for fun.

I didn’t graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who’s in tune with what’s really going on.

I do what I’ve got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can’t put that together and understand that.

I just never try to beat somebody on the scorecards. It’s never happened. It’s not in me, I think.

This is my life. It’s everything I do, train eight-hour days every day.

People want to see real skill level, real Jiu Jitsu, real boxing, put together and mixed up. They want to see mixed martial arts. They don’t want to see five minutes of holding. I think there should be points deducted when you do that.

I was always throwing a fit about it, like somebody I was fighting had their hair painted and I would be like, it’s not enough that this guy has to win a fight against me, but he’s gotta do it with his hair being on blast, like big mohawk. Just a wild man.

They pay me way too much money but not enough as far as I’m concerned.

I’ll fight anywhere.

I don’t like that I’m made out to be this evil person, who needs to be shot down and conquered.

The UFC wants me to fight. The people want me to fight. I don’t want me to fight.

I do get paid well as an MMA fighter, but this isn’t boxing and I feel like we should get paid like this is boxing.

A lot of guys have to worry about what their wives and kids think, I don’t.

I have a cage at home, I have a cage at all the gyms I train.

I’m just going to do what I always do: train. And when it’s time to fight, I go fight.

I’m a pay-per-view without a title.

I enjoy fighting here in Japan under the regular Dream/Pride rules with the ring and the whole rules criteria.