The World Motivation
Obviously, if you get injured in a fight, it takes a little longer to come back from that. Honestly, though, after most of my fights, I felt like I could've fought again the same night.
“Obviously, if you get injured in a fight, it takes a little longer to come back from that. Honestly, though, after most of my fights, I felt like I could've fought again the same night.”
— Dan Henderson · Injured
Obviously, if you get injured in a fight, it takes a little longer to come back from that. Honestly, though, after most of my fights, I felt like I could've fought again the same night.
I'm capable of beating anybody in the world at any weight class. It's just a matter of coming up with the right strategy, implementing that game plan, and feeling good that day.
Pride would give you a yellow card for being a little bit passive, and that meant they would take 10 percent out of your pay. Guys aren't going to be passive when they felt they were winning and risk losing pay.
I'd like to fight Jon Jones. We have unfinished business. It's something I got prepared for and never got to do.
As a player you have to look after your body because no one else will. I'd rather be proactive than kowtow to everyone and be injured all the time.
Not being injured and looking after myself is probably the biggest key to how I've progressed through the years.
This is the fight game, where somebody could get seriously injured, and that's what I'm looking to do when I get in there against Conor McGregor.
I wanted to build respect with my peers... I felt like I had done that throughout my WWE career. I really felt it and knew it was there when I got injured.
How can you train if you're constantly worried about getting injured?
When asked when I was still fighting about the Hall of Fame, I always said, 'That would be cool, but that's not why I'm fighting.' It doesn't matter as much to me as just making sure I represent myself well and represent the sport and do the best I can and win the fights.