Born To Fight Quotes

“If there is one message to take away from all this – this book, my story, my life – it would be that there’s incredible power in talking to someone about the hurts happening in your life. Speaking to Julie in those early days changed my life like magic, as it did when I spoke to a counsellor in 2010.”
― Mark Hunt, Born To Fight: The bestselling story of UFC champion Mark Hunt, the real life Rocky

“That day John came back from work whistling and seemingly happy. He went into the small room next to the kitchen, lay down a tarp, stacked his shoes on top of each other so they could serve as a pillow, grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed himself in the chest and neck. When that knife broke, he went and got another one. John went under but not all the way, and was revived and taken to hospital.”
― Mark Hunt, Born To Fight: The bestselling story of UFC champion Mark Hunt, the real life Rocky

“You know what, nearly getting a submission is like nearly winning the lottery: no one wants to hear about that shit.”
― Mark Hunt, Born To Fight: The bestselling story of UFC champion Mark Hunt, the real life Rocky

“The Pride people were dressed for business; Ben and I were dressed for Counter-Strike, which was on the agenda after we finished this meeting”
― Mark Hunt, Born To Fight: The bestselling story of UFC champion Mark Hunt, the real life Rocky

“I knew Silva loved an upkick, so I had to be wary of that, but I also really felt like jumping on that prick and wailing on him. I launched myself at him with an improvised attack that I think is unlikely to have been attempted in professional MMA before or since. I jumped up and tried to land my ass on Silva’s head, as though I was at the swimming pool and the Brazilian was the water. Randy Couture, who was doing the English commentary, called it the ‘Atomic Butt Drop’. The crowd loved it, but it had little effect and I landed on my back.”
― Mark Hunt, Born To Fight: The bestselling story of UFC champion Mark Hunt, the real life Rocky

“In the press conference preceding the big event, the Japanese media wanted to know what kind of training I was doing for my defence. ‘I’m mostly concentrating on sleep training,’ I said. There were follow-ups of course. ‘Hunto-san, can you please tell me how you do this sleep training?’ ‘Yeah, basically what you do is you think about training really, really hard, and when you think you can’t think about it anymore, then you go to sleep.’ The newspaper stories the next day talked about hyper-baric chambers and visualisation and the power of extreme concentration. I do love the Japanese.”
― Mark Hunt, Born To Fight: The bestselling story of UFC champion Mark Hunt, the real life Rocky

“I’d already seen all this. As far as I was concerned, I’d won this fight weeks ago.”
― Mark Hunt, Born To Fight: The bestselling story of UFC champion Mark Hunt, the real life Rocky

“I’d only seen these famous K-1 fighters on VHS, and had certainly never been in a ring with one. I half-expected them to be superhuman, like Goku in Dragon Ball Z or Ryu in Street Fighter 2, and I hadn’t discounted the possibility that Le Banner might be about to hadouken me from across the ring”
― Mark Hunt, Born To Fight: The bestselling story of UFC champion Mark Hunt, the real life Rocky

“Sometimes the teachers and other kids would pity me and throw me a sandwich half or some fruit. I appreciated the food, but never the pity. I was never, ever in for the pity. I guess I must have felt pride then, too. You can’t have embarrassment without pride.”
― Mark Hunt, Born To Fight: The bestselling story of UFC champion Mark Hunt, the real life Rocky