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Sparring is not as tough as a fight.
I ruptured my bicep tendon in a sparring session.
Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously.
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
I don't enjoy sparring with the audience. It devastates me.
Sparring with southpaws have been different but nothing to worry me.
I have showed things in sparring and camp that I don't show in fights.
When I get into the Octagon I look at it as another sparring session kind of.
I've trained hundreds of hundreds of rounds of sparring at American Top Team.
I will never let another man disrespect me. I don't care if we sparring or fighting.
For me it's my biggest sporting achievement being Conor McGregor's sparring partner.
I've done a lot of rounds with Teofimo Lopez, sparring in Miami - so I know about him.
I bring in the hardest sparring partners you can imagine and I'm going through the guys.
For me, it's very hard to train too much, just sparring, sparring, sparring. It's boring.
I do much less sparring and always with the purpose of working on something in particular.
We always train with heavier sparring partners to make it harder so the fight will be easier.
Each time I'm training and sparring, I'm always pushing myself to submit my training partners.
I'm more vicious in sparring when I am around 160 pounds or coming down from heavier than that.
I've spent a lot of time encouraging, corralling, protecting, and sparring with creative people.
We risk our health much more during fights and sparring than by getting infected with coronavirus.
Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn't mean there's any personal animosity.
In U.S., there are lot of good fighters, female fighters. Lots of different sparring partners. So it's good.
You can't cut no days, you can't cut no corners, because you will feel it in the gym, you'll feel it in the sparring.
Honestly, I'm destroying people in sparring, but for some reason I haven't been able to show my full potential in the UFC.
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.
The Courtroom is a battlefield, and oral argument requires a fair amount of verbal jousting and sparring with the Justices.
When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that - it was a heavenly sound to me.
I've mixed sparring partners up. I've done tons upon tons of rounds with big, heavy lumps who are trying to take my head off.
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.
A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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.
I can be the nice family man at home, and then when I go to the gym, maybe sparring with someone, I switch into beast mode. It ain't pretty.
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.
Sparring is probably the best cardio, but strength training is the best way to prevent the kind of injuries that come from roadwork and sparring.
I spar in the gym, and I take pride in my sparring. But I'm a better fighter when the lights come on because it's right now - there is no tomorrow.
I know what I'm capable of. My dad, my brother, know what I'm capable of. They've seen me in the ring sparring. They know me better than anyone else.
I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.
Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.
Many MMA fighters have tried boxing before, even just sparring for a few rounds, but no boxer has done MMA rounds. There's just no way for them to do that.
I remember I did a boxing class. I remember sparring one time, and the guy smacked me right in the nose, and I was just like, 'What is this? No. No. None of that.
You're just taking punishment every day, getting hit all the time. That's something we're going to cut back on. I'll train hard but the sparring will be cut in half.
I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
When most people think of Tae Kwon Do - which, in the United States, is not all that often - they think of sparring, a form of competition that both men and women perform at the Olympics.
I don't do isolation body building; I just do practical things that help me with the kind of things that are asked of me in action movies. You know, a lot of kick boxing, a lot of sparring.
The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.
To be able to perform at a high level, to be able to do things that no other fighter can do, you have to practice it. And the only way you can practice is by sparring, by fighting another man.
For my whole career, I didn't have sparring partners. I was frustrated when I came to the UFC because, after a few minutes of the first round, I would feel dead because I had no sparring partners.
There are two kinds of magic. If you think of it like martial arts, there's sparring, where you are doing it with a partner, and the other is kata, where you're doing an exposition for the audience.
There's a very big difference between being fit and being fight fit. Sparring is the only way to get fight fit. It's a very important part of boxing and something that I do as regularly as possible.
Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.