100 Quotes by Ben Askren

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    There are conferences every year where all the major coaches get together, and they talk about the issues in wrestling, what's going to happen. There's a major governing body, U.S.A. Wrestling, which oversees a lot of the issues. The organization is there in wrestling to make a very well-balanced, organized system.

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    If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.

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    People are stubborn, and sometimes even if change is good, people will always oppose change.

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    In MMA, all of these coaches are doing their best.

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    I've got more skills in my pinky finger than half the damn guys in the UFC.

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    A Division I college wrestling team has so many guys at such a high level it'd be like having every single guy in the gym being a top 10 UFC guy, and that's who you're competing against every single day. Most everyone has been wrestling since they were 5 years old. It's been their dream to wrestle in college. There's such a high level of intensity.

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    I don't care about having a fancy car. I don't have a lot of the wants and needs that a lot of people have where I would need to make a $1 million a fight.

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    I trained with Jorge Masvidal when I've been training MMA for 2-1/2 months in Coconut Creek, Fla., in, like, December 2008. I was beating him up then!

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    One of the big things is I try not to worry about things I can't control.

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