Quotes by Alistair Overeem - Page 1

Accidents can happen at any time.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Accidents
Happens
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Don't give up at the first hurdle you encounter.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Hurdle
Encounter
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I've always been a fighter and always competitive.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Competitive
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Kill yourself in training so you don't die fighting.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Fighting
Killing Yourself
Training
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If I lose to Frank Mir, I have to find something else to do.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Frank
Mir
Something Else
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There is no fear. There are only two things. Trained and untrained.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
No Fear
Two
Two Things
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It was always my goal to go back to MMA because my passion is there.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Mma
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I'm not usually the guy who believes in aliens, UFOs or superstitions.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Superstitions
Alien
Believes
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I go to bed with a clear conscience. I sleep great. I know I did my best.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Mma
Sleep
Ufc
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I'm just cruising, doing me, having a good time and focusing on getting better.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Having A Good Time
Time Good Me
Time Good Better
Getting
Focusing
Getting Better
Good Time
Having
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Fighting is life... Are you a person who gives up or are you a person who's going to fight?
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Fighting
Giving Up
Ufc
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Every fight, honest to say, in this division, at this level, is a toss-up. It's a 50-50 chance.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Division
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I like Thailand, and I love coming to Asia with the whole vibe, food, temperature, and climate.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Climate
Temperature
Thailand
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No, I'm not going to retire. Not going anywhere. I'm focused on the UFC. It's the biggest stage.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Ufc
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I don't have any concerns fighting a teammate. It's a sport. To me, it doesn't really mean anything.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Fighting
Teammate
Me Anything Mean
Concerns
Sport
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When my entire focus is on training and just preparing... I just do 100-percent that and nothing else.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Preparing
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America is the future. I am committed to the States. I'm guessing this is going to be a permanent move.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Committed
Guessing
Permanent
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The top 10 is really a media thing anyway unless you're the champion, but otherwise, it's always speculation.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Champion
Speculation
Anyway
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I have a nutritionist and a doctor. Everything is checked. Thoroughly. Everything I take is checked out first.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Nutritionist
Checked
Thoroughly
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I'm an all-around fighter. I do everything. I've got wrestling; I've got Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and I've got striking.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
All-Around
Brazilian
Striking
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Even if we were friends, I consider this a sport, a competition, so there are no ill feelings towards any other fighter or whatever.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Ill
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There are not many heavyweight fighters to come by, so having so many sparring partners is a big luxury a lot of other fighters don't have.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Luxury
Partners
Sparring
Fighters
Heavyweight
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Style-wise, dos Santos is going to be an excellent fight for me - striker against striker. With my experience, I should have the upper hand.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Upper Hand
Upper
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This is a full-contact sport. It's the objective to disable your opponent, even if sparring or a real fight. You've got to use your technique.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Sparring
Technique
Fight
Sport
Objective
Opponent
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I'm working relentlessly at becoming a better fighter than I was yesterday. I think I've really shown that I'm a more evolved fighter these days than I've ever been.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Yesterday
Relentlessly
Shown
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I heard there was a debate about fighting teammates, and if a fight should happen because the fans or promoter wants it, I will fight a teammate, but family is ridiculous.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Debate
Teammate
Promoter
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As a fighter, you need to constantly improve. So that's what we've been doing: constantly improving striking, grappling, wrestling - there's always different aspects to improve.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Grappling
Improving
Aspects
Striking
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Brock Lesnar was a big guy: he's at 280 when he fights. When fighting him, you can have a bit of that extra muscle because you don't want to be thrown around like you're nothing.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Thrown
Muscle
Fights
Big Guy
Extra
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I wanted to join the Army, but my eyesight wasn't good, so I quit school and my job to just focus on fighting. I didn't want to just get deployed. I wanted to get in on the action.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Army
Eyesight
Deployed
Join
Quit
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The move into K-1 was very big at the time. It was very special to me. I liked it. It was different. It was only striking, no ground, so it kinda changed my fight style a little bit.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Time Fight Me
Striking
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I do believe that Brock Lesnar will be coming back. I don't want to call it from retirement, but he is a huge draw, big guy, sells tickets. So that's a fight I would be interested in.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Retirement
Sells
Tickets
Big Guy
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This level of competition is extremely high. Everybody is trained. Everybody has a game plan. Everybody has a nutritionist. Everybody has everything. It's here that you realize, as people, we're all equal.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Equal
Game Plan
Nutritionist
Extremely
Plan
Realize
Trained
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One mistake, your winning streak is over and you've got to start over again. But you have to be optimistic in life, and I find that it's also beautiful, because if things are too predictable, that sucks, too, right?
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Optimistic
Predictable
Sucks
Streak
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I have stated many times that one of my goals was to become K-1 champion. K-1 is, in our country Holland, very popular, and it's a big opportunity to become the first person that holds two world titles in two different sports.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Titles
Big Opportunity
Holds
Stated
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I moved to the States, and that was a big thing for me. I moved to Miami, and I joined the Blackzilians. For me at the time, it seemed like the best logical solution, but sometimes surrounding yourself with new people is not good.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Logical
Miami
Time Best Good
Big Thing
Best Time Good
Joined
New People
Solution
Surrounding
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My brother has the potential to become one of the top guys within Strikeforce. He had a very busy personal life; therefore, he wasn't training as hard as he should, but if he's going to pick up his training, he will be a danger for every fighter.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Busy
Danger
Personal Life
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Brazilians tend to have that weakness, they get emotional. You can easily get them upset and get them out of their comfort zone. They're clever too and very gifted athletes but they have that emotional thing, which we Europeans also have a little bit of.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Athlete
Clever
Emotional
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The UFC are doing a tremendous job of promoting the sport worldwide. The views about the sport haven't always been so positive here in the Holland, but it's nice to see change and to see the UFC come to Holland, and everyone been really enthusiastic about it.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Enthusiastic
Holland
Ufc
Views
Positive Change Always
Tremendous
Worldwide
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Even after you win the championship, the work doesn't stop; it probably only becomes more. I'm just basically focused on what I need to do. There's a lot that goes into this - diet, preparation, assembling the right people around you, sparring partners, coaches, etc. - so I'm not enjoying anything.
Alistair Overeem / Mixed Martial Artist
Diet
Assembling
Championship
Coaches
Etc
Partners
Preparation
Sparring
Enjoying
Right People
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