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Rashad Evans Biography

Rashad Anton Evans (born September 25, 1979) is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the light heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He had previously fought in the heavyweight division as well as light heavyweight. A professional competitor since 2003, Evans was the Heavyweight winner of The Ultimate Fighter 2 and is also a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion.

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To live is to fight. We just fight in different arenas.

Fighting, Mma, Different, Fight, Arenas

I am a student of whoever I can learn from. I don't see myself in position like I'm above anybody else and I can never learn, or no one can ever teach me anything. You learn a lot from guys who are just starting off sometimes.

Guy, Students, Sometimes, See, Guys, Student

I don't fight to prove that I'm tough, I know I'm tough. I fight because it's inside of me.

Fight, Fighting, Prove, Tough

I am a student of whoever I can learn from.

Mma, Students, I Can, Learn, Student

One day these will just be memories that I haveso I try to enjoy it as much as possible

Enjoy, Memories, Mma, Possible, Trying

My main job is to go and have fun. When I do that, everything just seems to fall into place.

Everything, Fall, Fun, Job, Jobs, Place

You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you’re at your weakest.

Chips, Know Yourself, Strength, Strongest, True, True Strength

Life is a celebration… I try to enjoy it as much as possible.

Celebration, Enjoy, Life, Life Is, Possible, Trying

My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but still able to smile. See it's one thing to overcome adversity and to be scarred and to carry that with you but when you have somebody overcomes adversity and they're still able to smile that's something else. That's true strength.

Adversity, Becomes, Hero, Mother, Smile

Before a fight I'm always afraid. . . before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try to run away from it, but then as I competed more I understood the fact that this is how I'm supposed to feel.

Dealing, Fact, Fighting, Hard Times, Running, Understood

It's about feeling alive in the moment because your adrenaline is going, your thinking about that present moment, you're not somewhere else, you're not thinking about what's going to happen 10 minutes from now, and that's the reason why I love fighting, it's when I'm in there. I feel free, I feel like there's no other place I want t be. I can't even think of anything beyond that second. That's why I'm drawn to the fight, because I love the presence of it, where it brings me mentally, it's the purest thing for me.

Fighting, Present, Purest, Somewhere Else, Think, Thinking

If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.

Art, Fighting, Practice, Fight, Harder

A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things.

Know, Lazy, People, Things, Thinking

To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.

Becoming, Fight, Fighting, Live, Testing, Testing Yourself

I'm a UFC fighter, a macho-type sport. I am a heterosexual guy in a tough macho sport, which is exactly the reason I feel a duty to say I support gay marriage and gay rights. I have nothing to gain personally from supporting this issue, and that's the point. Society as a whole is better when there is equality, and I want to live in a country where everyone has the same rights because we all benefit from that

Country, Gay, Heterosexual, Macho, Reason, Sports

Being a great fighter is having a perfect balance of having that toughness, skill, as well as that mental capability to be able to out-think you opponent.

Mental, Mma, Opponent, Skill, Skills, Thinking

As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.

Athlete, Coachable, Humbling, Mma

All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks. . . When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.

Peak, Tested, Trials, Valley, Valleys, Wrestling

We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.

Different, Earth, Fighters, Fighting, Live