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Chael Sonnen Biography

Chael Patrick Sonnen (/ˈtʃeɪl ˈsʌnən/; born April 3, 1977) is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the Heavyweight division of Bellator MMA. A professional MMA competitor since 1997, Sonnen has also fought in the UFC, WEC and Pancrase.

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I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.

Doe, Justify, Practice, Though, Working, Would Be

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

Art, Arts, Expression, Fighting, Martial

Whether I want to be at practice or not, I show up every day. Whether I'm healthy or I'm sick or hurt or tired, I show up every day.

Healthy, Hurt, Practice, Show, Tired

Somebody is going to win & somebody is not, and that's fine. . . But we will never refuse to participate because we're scared to fail.

Fail, Fine, Mma, Refuse, Scared, Winning

When I was young they used to call me 'The Foreman,' not because I was in charge but because I did the work of four men.

Charge, Four, Men, Used, Work, Young

As a professional athlete I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before.

Athlete, Emotion, Fighting, Helped, Mma

I should be the reigning champion. I punch a guy 300 times, he punches me a couple and they call him the champion? In what parallel universe does that make you the winner? I am the champion. I’ve been the champion. Anderson’s ribs have the exact same problem that his hands and his feet have, they’re attached to a cowardly person.

Couple, Feet, Hands, Problem, Ribs, Universe

You know, these guys want to talk about God; 'Oh, I want to thank God. I want to thank God. ' Listen, I'm a God-fearing man, go to church every Sunday and have since I was a boy. But if I ever found out that God cared one way or another about a borderline illegal fist-fight on Saturday night, I would be so greatly disappointed that it would make rethink my entire belief system.

Cared, Church, Fighting, Men, Sunday

I don't do camps. Camps are for kids. I don't sleep in tents or roast marshmallows. I certainly don't tell ghost stories or own a sleeping bag. But I do work hard every single day.

Camps, Hard Work, Kids, Sleep, Sleeping

Listen Wanderlei, I will do a home invasion on you. I will cut the power to your house and the next thing you'll hear is me climbing up your stairs in a pair of night vision goggles I bought in the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine. I'll pick the lock to the master room door, take a picture of you in bed with the Nogueira brothers working on your 'jiu-jitsu'. I'll take said quote unquote photograph, post it at dorksfrombrazil. com, password - not required, username - not required. That, Wanderlei, is how you threaten someone. Dummy.

Brother, Home, Cutting, Vision, Username, Dorksfrombrazil

GSP is good, but don't get me wrong he better stay at 170 with the other midgetts.

170, Good, Gsp, Midgetts, Stay, Wrong

As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.

Fibers, Hard Work, Mean, Mentality, Muscle, Sick

They'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous, failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times. But it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed.

Choices, Choose, Fail, Ridiculous, Succeed, Tell

They say if somebody has done something you want to do, all you need to do is go out and copy them.

Done, Mma, Needs, Say, Somebody

I was in Las Vegas when the Nogueira brothers first touched down in America. There was a bus, this is a true story. There was a bus that pulled up to a red light, and Little Nog tried to feed it a carrot, while Big Nog was petting it. He thought it was a horse. This really happened. He tried to feed a bus a carrot, and now you're telling me this country has computers? I didn't know that.

Brother, Carrot, Computers, Country, Horse, Pulled

If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.

Fool, Looks, Mma, Risk, Talk, Walk

Never piss off a gangster.

Gangster, Gangsters, Piss

I found that to build mental toughness, you need to inconvenience yourself. The early morning runs, if you hate early mornings. The late night runs, if you hate late nights. The snowy cold, the worst conditions you can get, put yourself in those and really make it inconvenient and you start to get a genuine expectation of winning for the price you have to pay.

Early, Hate, Inconvenience, Inconvenient, Morning, Running

Even if I thought I could get a submission I'm not laying underneath a grown man with my legs spread on worldwide TV. Some guys subscribe to that theory but I am a Republican and we don't do that.

Guy, Legs, Men, Submission, Theory, Thought

Say what you want before the fight but when it's done, you accept the result.

Done, Fight, Fighting, Mma, Result, Say

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