23 Quotes By — Ben Askren — Quotes OF Quote
By — Abhijit Mondal
Wrestling is a worldwide sport. It’s totally international.
— Ben Askren
My view on wrestling in MMA is changed a lot since I started really doing it.
— Ben Askren
I try to wrestle one time a week with good, solid people.
— Ben Askren
I think people realize that I’m one of the best welterweights, whether I’m number one or number four or number five or number six.
— Ben Askren
So I think there’s a lot of people who are really interested to see how good I really am, because they know I’m good, but they’re not really sure how good. They want to see that, and there’s definitely interest in that, but because of some other people’s shortsightedness, maybe it never really happens.
— Ben Askren
When I say something, I generally stick to it, no matter what it is in life.
— Ben Askren
Young guys kind of have this chip on their shoulder of, ‘I want to prove something,’ right? ‘I’ve got to prove how tough I am. I’ve got to prove how good I am.’ And man, now as I’m getting older, I think it’s almost sad when guys my age and older still have that chip on their shoulder.
— Ben Askren
It’s like, hey, I’ve done what I could do, I’ve accomplished a lot, and now this — especially with wrestling — if this next generation wants to pass me up, great job. Good for them.
— Ben Askren
A male athlete’s peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.
— Ben Askren
Man, I competed 40 times in three months when I was wrestling, my whole life.
— Ben Askren
I love running my business, and I love wrestling. I love helping kids.
— Ben Askren
I’m not willing to compromise my goals for monetary value.
— Ben Askren
I’m just a straightforward kind of dude.
— Ben Askren
I don’t try to hide my feelings or what I think.
— Ben Askren
When I came through the ranks in wrestling — in high school and college — those systems have been in place for 100 years, and they’re fairly standard training across the board for all the colleges.
— Ben Askren
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.
— Ben Askren
In MMA, all of these coaches are doing their best.
— Ben Askren
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.
— Ben Askren
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!
— Ben Askren
I don’t give a damn about my record.
— Ben Askren
I want to go and fight the best guys in the world and show people I’m the best. And hey, if something doesn’t go my way — I don’t think that’s gonna happen. I realize that’s a possibility in competition, and that’s what happens.
— Ben Askren
The worst 24- to 36-hour period of my whole camp, the part I like the least, is the part where I’ve gotta cut 13 to 15 pounds of water weight.
— Ben Askren
My two things I always said is, №1, I’d be retired by the time I had my first kid, and №2, I’d be retired by the time I was 30.
— Ben Askren
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