100 Quotes by Cub Swanson

When you're trying to add something to your game, you always lose something else, and that something else is something so important.

It is very important I live up to my own expectations as far as popularity and knowing that I left my mark on the sport.

The younger generation of fighters, they want to try to make a name for themselves. They want to be something that they're not.

There are young guys coming up, trying to make their name off me, and I'm a stubborn dude. I don't want to let that happen. That's very motivating.

If I fight that fight that makes everybody go, 'Wow, he's unstoppable,' - that's all I can do.

I realize that I put my body through a lot, but I've always thought at the same time if I was a plumber or any kind of worker in that industry, which a lot of people that I grew up with are, I would imagine that their bodies feel the same, their backs are wrecked.

When you treat your career early on really crappy, you can't expect to be in a good position. That's just the way pro fighting is.

I definitely think that a lot of these fighters should be taken care of long-term. But I feel like we're in that kind of situation where it's, like, the early NFL players. We're the ones that kind of set the standard, and then the next generation are probably going to get all the benefits from us growing the sport.

I think that one thing that I've prided myself on is that tough situations make for tougher people and that was one of my goals as well getting into this sport, I wanted to be a tougher human. I wanted to be a tougher man and basically when I had kids I'd be able to be like a superhero to them, and I feel like I'm accomplishing that.