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I'm an average person, I just decided to work hard and dedicate myself to something. That's the only thing that separates people like me from people sitting on the couch.
- Travis Browne
#Me
#Myself
#People
#Person
#Work
Until I have that belt, defended that belt and left a legacy with my name and what I've done in that cage, then I'll have time to relax and take in what I've done.
- Travis Browne
#Done
#Legacy
#Name
#Relax
#Time
No matter who I fight, I'm going to be at a disadvantage in the experience department.
- Travis Browne
#Experience
#Fight
#Going
#Matter
#Who
Barnett is a veteran of the game, but at the same time, I've been fighting guys with a lot of experience my entire career.
- Travis Browne
#Career
#Experience
#Fighting
#Game
#Time
As far as Alistair goes, he's got a great fan base, he's a great name fighter, and I look forward to competing against him.
- Travis Browne
#Fan
#Fighter
#Great
#Look
#Name
I've had to learn fast. I've kind of come up the hard way in this sport and just a sense of my training partners and my coaches and that's been something that I've been having to deal with since day one.
- Travis Browne
#Day
#Fast
#Hard
#Training
#Way
My choice was to become great, to become better than average.
- Travis Browne
#Average
#Become
#Better
#Choice
#Great
I was on the couch watching Tim Sylvia beat Ricco Rodriguez, Randy Couture beat Tim Sylvia, and Josh Barnett fight in PRIDE.
- Travis Browne
#Beat
#Couch
#Fight
#Pride
#Watching
My fights all have great meaning to me because they give me the chance to put myself in a position I probably wouldn't have been in before without all of this. The one thing I won't lack in this business is motivation.
- Travis Browne
#Business
#Chance
#Great
#Me
#Myself
There is a reason we fight and for me, it's my family. I never forget them. Never. If I didn't have them, I'm not sure I would be here or if I'd be as good at this as I've become.
- Travis Browne
#Family
#Fight
#Good
#Me
#Never Forget
This is a difficult sport and it's a sport where you have to be prepared for so many eventualities and possibilities. It takes so much time and so much work. And as a guy with a family, there is a lot of sacrifice that must be made.
- Travis Browne
#Difficult
#Family
#Sacrifice
#Time
#Work
I want to be the best in this sport because I'm a competitor, but the real reason why is it will be the vehicle to be the family man I want to be.
- Travis Browne
#Best
#Family
#Man
#Real
#Reason
I'm disliked a lot and it's probably for the wrong reasons.
- Travis Browne
#Disliked
#Lot
#Wrong Reasons
#Wrong
The people that are around me understand what kind of man that I am.
- Travis Browne
#I Am
#Man
#Me
#People
#Understand
Since I fought Bigfoot, I've actually become a big fan of his, the way he carries himself and the way he handles himself. You have to respect the guy, with what he's done in the sport. With that said, I'd still love to compete against him and hopefully one day avenge that loss, if that's in the cards.
- Travis Browne
#Cards
#Day
#Love
#Respect
#Way
I'm learning the science behind the sport. I'm learning how to read people.
- Travis Browne
#Behind
#How
#Learning
#People
#Science
Whether friends or family, you know, if we're fighting, then we're fighting. And I have no problem with it.
- Travis Browne
#Family
#Fighting
#Friends
#Know
#Whether
I've always said it doesn't matter to me who I fight. At the end of the day, on that day, it's work. It's business.
- Travis Browne
#Business
#Day
#Fight
#Me
#Work
I was the idiot on the couch, 'I could beat some of these guys!' I would say that about Tim Sylvia. But I was like, 'Freakin' Arlovski, he looks like an athlete.' He looked rock solid.
- Travis Browne
#Beat
#Idiot
#Rock
#Say
#Solid
I'm going to do what I need to do to win fights.
- Travis Browne
#Fights
#Going
#Need
#Win
I learned as a fighter I know how to go out there and mess somebody.
- Travis Browne
#Fighter
#Go
#Know
#Mess
#Somebody
We go through those dark times and we need someone to lean on.
- Travis Browne
#Dark
#Go
#Need
#Someone
#Through
I create openings, and I move. I fight. It's an art form.
- Travis Browne
#Art
#Create
#Fight
#Form
#Move
During a round, unless the crowd is quiet, which a lot of times it isn't in my fights, you're standing there and the coach yells, 'One-two, one-two low kick.' Whatever it is, you don't really hear stuff. When you're in a fight and leather is being traded, I mean, are you really going to hear your coach?
- Travis Browne
#Fight
#Kick
#Mean
#Quiet
#Standing
Coach Winkeljohn is hell on pads, that guy pushes you so hard.
- Travis Browne
#Coach
#Guy
#Hard
#Hell
#Pads
You hear a lot from the other fighters that have fought in Denver, you see some of the fighters are just gassing out.
- Travis Browne
#Hear
#Just
#Lot
#Out
#See
I think I've put in some work and I've fought some tough guys early in my UFC career in order for me to get in that spot of being on the main card.
- Travis Browne
#Career
#Me
#Order
#Tough
#Work
Getting a win is nice but you have to have a dominant performance to make a run at that title, I believe.
- Travis Browne
#Believe
#Make
#Nice
#Performance
#Win
My relationship with Joe Silva has always been him saying 'hey I want you to fight this day' and it's like alright sounds good. I don't really look at it as an option.
- Travis Browne
#Day
#Fight
#Good
#Look
#Relationship
I'm learning how to fight. Just figuring out what I need to do to further myself.
- Travis Browne
#Fight
#Just
#Learning
#Myself
#Need
I've been learning the ins and outs of the fight game and a little more of the technical side.
- Travis Browne
#Fight
#Game
#Learning
#More
#Side
That's the place to be, is on the main card.
- Travis Browne
#Card
#Main
#Place
I think it's important for the kids to spend quality time with their parents, and to see their parents happy and loving life, even if it so happens that they live apart. That's a lot better than having them stay together and be miserable.
- Travis Browne
#Life
#Live
#Quality
#Time
#Together
I guess you could call me a soccer dad.
- Travis Browne
#Call
#Could
#Dad
#Guess
#Me
If I could only have one thing in life, it would be for my sons to grow up to become quality men who are interested in doing the right thing. I want them to be highly moral people who care about what is happening in the world around them. The best way to do that as a parent is to set the right example. That's what I try to do.
- Travis Browne
#Best
#Grow
#Life
#Men
#World
I've never said 'no' to a fight and I've always been ready for anything they've thrown my way.
- Travis Browne
#Always
#Fight
#Never
#Ready
#Way
The title shot, the way I look at it is I just have to go out there and do my job. If I keep winning fights, there's no way they can't give me that title shot.
- Travis Browne
#Job
#Look
#Me
#Way
#Winning
The one thing I've learned about this sport is that it's OK to be selfish at times.
- Travis Browne
#About
#Learned
#OK
#One Thing
#Selfish
I feel like every time I train, I'm moving so far forward. I'm constantly evolving.
- Travis Browne
#Every
#Feel
#Moving
#Time
#Train
I feel like I might have an idea of what goes on at Jackson-Winkeljohn's, but at the same time, that's why Coach Jackson and Coach Winkeljohn are considered some of the best. They're able to game-plan and bring the best out of their athletes.
- Travis Browne
#Best
#Coach
#Feel
#Time
#Why
For me, I'm a family man. I absolutely love my family and they're the closest thing to my heart. And to me, that's my life.
- Travis Browne
#Family
#Heart
#Life
#Love
#Man
Fighting is a part of life, right? It's my career and all that kind of stuff.
- Travis Browne
#Career
#Fighting
#Life
#Right
#Stuff
People want to see you go out there and be dominant and finish fights.
- Travis Browne
#Finish
#Go
#People
#See
#Want
Sometimes guys will come out and just barely squeak by to get a win and then wonder why they don't get a title shot. Who wants to see that?
- Travis Browne
#See
#Sometimes
#Why
#Win
#Wonder
I'm not a dirty fighter.
- Travis Browne
#Dirty
#Fighter
I'm not trying to just sit on the couch for a year.
- Travis Browne
#Couch
#Just
#Sit
#Trying
#Year
I owned a couple different businesses.
- Travis Browne
#Businesses
#Couple
#Different
#Owned
I got into MMA because I wanted to show my kids that they could be an athlete, that they could push themselves in whatever direction they wanted in life.
- Travis Browne
#Direction
#Life
#Push
#Show
#Whatever
If you want to fight, this is what's promised to you. If you agree to it, then I don't feel like you have the right to go back and say, 'They're not paying me that much.' You agreed to it. This is your job. I think that some guys may forget about that a little bit.
- Travis Browne
#Agree
#Back
#Feel
#Fight
#Me
I'd love to be a coach one day, but before fighting I was into dog training. I was a handler and I really enjoyed that.
- Travis Browne
#Day
#Dog
#Fighting
#Love
#Training
If you make me mad I'll let you know, but I prefer to do all the talking with my fighting inside the ring.
- Travis Browne
#Fighting
#Know
#Mad
#Me
#Talking
I did protection work with dogs. I trained dogs how to protect their handlers and owners. We'd teach them bite work, how to search buildings and deal with gunfire and stuff like that. Sometimes I'd be the 'bad guy' that dogs would attack in training.
- Travis Browne
#Bad
#Search
#Sometimes
#Training
#Work
I'm a sore loser.
- Travis Browne
#Loser
#Sore
I've never asked for anything from the UFC. I've never asked for a certain fight.
- Travis Browne
#Anything
#Certain
#Fight
#Never
#UFC
If you depend on the UFC for sponsorships, the only money you get is in-cage sponsorships? Then I don't feel, as a manager, that you're doing your job.
- Travis Browne
#Doing
#Feel
#Job
#Money
#Your
I don't like the fake stuff that goes on outside the ring.
- Travis Browne
#Fake
#Like
#Outside
#Ring
#Stuff
My whole thing is to stay humble and stay confident in my abilities.
- Travis Browne
#Confident
#Humble
#Stay
#Thing
#Whole
I know I'm skillful and capable of finishing fights.
- Travis Browne
#Capable
#Fights
#Finishing
#Know
There's nothing nice about the cage. There's nothing soft about it. It's nasty. You get in there. You get dirty. You get beat up.
- Travis Browne
#Beat
#Dirty
#Nasty
#Nice
#Nothing
In Hawaii, where I'm from, I'm Hapa Haole. It's pretty much if you're mixed blood or have two different ethnicities or even more, you're considered Hapa. It really means half but now it just means mixed.
- Travis Browne
#Blood
#More
#Now
#Pretty
#Two
I had offers to go overseas and play basketball but I turned it down because I wanted to stay local. So I got started in Jiu Jitsu, which was something I could be competitive at.
- Travis Browne
#Competitive
#Down
#Go
#Play
#Stay
In any fight that I go into, I don't like to complain about stuff because at the end of the day, a fight's a fight.
- Travis Browne
#Day
#End Of The Day
#End
#Fight
#Go
I just want my kids to grow up to become good men and that starts with understanding the world around them. That's something I push them to do.
- Travis Browne
#Good
#Grow
#Men
#Understanding
#World
I was a painting contractor for a while and then a dog trainer. I opened my own business dog training and had some success.
- Travis Browne
#Business
#Painting
#Success
#Training
There was a point in my life and my career where I had less than $100 to spend on both of my kids for Christmas. I remember telling myself, I remember telling my best friend, I said, 'This will never happen again.' I will not let this happen. I mean, $100 for me to spend on my family, friends, everybody.
- Travis Browne
#Best
#Christmas
#Family
#Life
#Myself
One of my favorites is Dominick Cruz, a training partner of mine.
- Travis Browne
#Cruz
#Favorites
#Mine
#Partner
#Training
Dating is for children. Dating is for kids.
- Travis Browne
#Children
#Dating
#Kids
People find beauty in the desert. I don't know where they're looking because I haven't found it. It's ugly. It's nasty. It's dirt. It's desert. It's sand. It's rock. It's cactus. It's lizards and snakes.
- Travis Browne
#Beauty
#Find
#Looking
#People
#Sand
Basically, I played basketball for a small college out here in California and when I was done playing college, I settled down and got a job.
- Travis Browne
#Basketball
#Done
#Down
#Job
#Small
I had a tough life, and I wanted my kids to have better than what I had.
- Travis Browne
#Better
#Kids
#Life
#Tough
#Wanted
If you make no excuses, there's nothing holding you back.
- Travis Browne
#Back
#Excuses
#Holding
#Make
#Nothing
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