Tim Kennedy is a martial art star from California, USA. He owns in a total of 18 times in mixed martial arts matches and lost 1 amateur match record. Tim also served the US Army in Iraq & Afghanistan in 2004 as a sergeant. He even played a role in the film named Range 15. Kennedy is one-time Extreme Challenge Middleweight Tournament Winner and one-time Fight of the Night/Knockout of the Night winner under “Ultimate Fighting Championship” tournament.
Tim Kennedy doesn’t come out of anything. He learned Cooking, Piano, Shooting, Boxing, Wrestling and Ju-jitsu when he was very young.
He is married, has 4 children and owns a company named Ranger Up.
In his long journey of different phases of life; he commented on different issues and stuff and some of the best quotes of Tim Kennedy are as below.
Best Tim Kennedy Quotations
“I always have that nagging feeling of wanting to go back and getting my long gun back and be a sniper on a Special Forces ODA, which is the greatest job in the world, but I have some goals in MMA that I set out to do, and I’m not going to stop until I get them.”
“What’s the definition of terrorism? It’s to achieve an objective through the use of force and fear. These are just nasty, evil, disgusting human beings who disrespect human life.”
“I love the idea of what America is. America is a bunch of people that do these incredible, thankless, selfless jobs that nobody really knows about that makes that American dream possible.”
“Everyone knows who I am; everyone respects me as a shooter, as an operator, as a soldier… I’m always truthful, I’m always honest, and I’m always trying to do the right thing.”
“Find something bigger than yourself and pour every ounce of who you are into it. If that’s your family, be the best father on Earth. If you are a cop, firefighter, or a trash man, be the best.”
“I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It’s always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband.”
“MMA in an individual sport, and you’re just pushing yourself to be as dangerous as you can be in 15 minutes.”
“My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.”
“I am a nice guy. I love having a good time. I love cooking. I love hanging out with my friends.”
“You should be falling asleep before your head hits the pillow because you worked so hard every moment of the day.”
“If we are ever going to rescue our nation from selfish entitlement, political correctness, and collectivism, we must start sending citizen-statesman warriors to fight for us in Washington, and I believe Col. Maness will do just that.”
“Who would I be to be cowering to a bunch of gutless cowards acting like a bunch of tough guys online?”
“You’re always going to get an honest, straightforward response from me. Honest to a fault.”
“When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it’s kinda cute… A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don’t. It’s not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do.”
“I wish that everyone that’s complaining about how things are here would shut their mouth for a little bit, go around the world and see how it is everywhere else.”
“Fighting is a lonely thing. You train with your team. You bleed with them. You trust your coaches, but ultimately, you are in the cage alone.”
“If you’ve been hit, if you’ve been put down, if you’ve lost, that next time you come out, you have to make a testament: you have to make a demonstration, a showing, that it’s not going to happen again.”
“I’m not perfect – I’m human, and I can make mistakes – but I’m always going to fight clean; I’m always going to go out there and try to put on a good show.”
“I will always have that, ‘I want to be the best fighter on the planet’ thing in me.”
“I’m an eight-year Green Beret, Ranger, sniper.”
“No matter what I do, it’s all about the workouts. When I travel, I make sure I get my workout in first. When I’m in camp for a fight, I don’t travel at all, and I train three times a day. The secret is to just keep working.”
“I have no problem putting on a kit, carrying a big sniper rifle, and running a few thousand meters.”
“I really want to demonstrate I’m not to be overlooked anymore.”
“I’ve been to Afghanistan and Iraq a few times, and then I’ve done deployments elsewhere – with Special Forces, we go all over the place.”
“I want to thank the military community for their support. I’ll never be able to explain how much you motivated me and how much I always tried to make you proud.”
“Watching everybody have such a fantastic time, loving life, loving America – I wish that was the feeling year-round, that it didn’t take the Fourth of July for us to be like, ‘Yeah, America is awesome.’”
“I want to thank all of my opponents. Iron sharpens iron, and every great victory or crushing defeat occurred because there was someone who trained hard and had the courage to meet me across the cage.”
“Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward.”
“I’ve been part of task forces hunting the most evil humans to walk the face of this planet. I believe all of that was for a reason, because I love America.”
“I’m the guy that is always in shape.”
“I’m the guy that once graduated Ranger School – a place that starves you and denies you sleep for over two months – and took a fight six days later in the IFL and won.”
“I love fighting and will always have the heart of a fighter.”
“I remember every moment of every gunfight I’ve ever been in.”
“The people that are close to me, the people that I spend most of my time with, they’re all really like-minded people.”
“I freaking hate liars.”
“If Katie Couric or Anderson Cooper asked me to come on to their shows and give them content every single day, I would do it because that gives me access to a huge population of people that I can hopefully, in some way, plant seeds in fertile soil, and those seeds would grow into oak trees of freedom.”
“Carlos Condit does the best job of being the counterstriking guy that is very elusive.”
“I know I’m not a marquee name, and I’m looked past by most guys.”
“It’s a good thing I have another job because the UFC doesn’t pay very well.”
“I make, like, three or four times more when I don’t fight than when I do fight. And, I’m one of the higher-paid guys in the UFC, which is remarkably tragic and pathetic.”
“I got my hand slapped for talking about fighter pay. That was a big one. I had Dana White yell at me in front of, like, 20 other fighters.”
“Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class.”
“Michael Bisping, we had a five round battle. I beat him for five rounds and tripled the amount of strikes landed. I landed more take-downs in that fight than had been landed on him in his entire career.”
“Fighting is a very independent thing, and it’s not a team sport, and it’s not the NFL, you know, because we don’t have to look the same.”
“There are some parallels between ‘Zombieland’ and ‘Range 15,’ except ‘Zombieland,’ with Woody Harrelson, there’s this pleasurable fun in every scene.”
“I’m against torture. I’m also against terrorism.”
“You could waterboard me for days – for years – and I would still be cracking jokes about how bad Rachel Maddow is.”
“I’m asked daily about how and why I don’t have PTSD. I’m probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.”
“I think obstacle courses in general are a blast, and I love the Green Beret one; I’ve done it – I don’t know – 20, 30, 40 times. I’m always trying to break my time from the last one or use a new technique to get through a certain obstacle.”
“I hate it when anyone in the gym can deadlift more than me.”
“Kettlebells are the best for everything. We do snatches and swings with them for explosiveness and hamstring and lower back strength, and we’ll also throw them into conditioning circuits where I’ll do a burpee holding the kettlebells and transition into a 2-handed snatch.”
“I love to deadlift, and it’s a huge part of my training because it works every muscle in the body.”
“I want to earn a top-contender status in the UFC, so I have to fight the best.”
“I was deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq with British Special Forces Units. I have great respect for the British military and the country as a whole, so I don’t have anything negative to say about that.”
“I’m competitive when I fight, but I don’t get emotionally involved.”
“I’ve fought guys that I like. When you’re fighting a guy that you don’t like, you have to be able to separate certain aspects of it.”
“I’m not hard to find unless you’re ISIS – then, it’s a rough night.”
“People want to hear what I do with Special Forces, as a ranger, as a sniper. And I’m like ‘What does that have to do with fighting?’ Let’s talk about fighting. They couldn’t be more different; there’s nothing similar about them.”
“My military service has nothing to do with what I do in the ring.”
“MMA has a referee, and you’re wearing gloves. I’m in there with another volunteering participant that’s out there to win some prize money.”
“I’m endorsing Col. Maness for United States Senate because of his deeply held commitment to the constitutional rights and principles our nation was founded upon.”
“I’m very disciplined in the approach I take for my training.”
“Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I’m just not sure I was born to be in peace time.”
“That’s part of my military character, I think. You back one of us into a corner, and you can only expect one thing: us coming at you like wild, rabid dogs.”
“I hit hard, and I’m hard to take down.”
“When you’re in Ranger School, it sucks. You’re not eating; you’re not sleeping. You’re marching miles – for months at a time. It’s horrible.”
“I will always be fighting in one form or another until the day I die.”
“I think the most rewarding thing is going over and being deployed and having done meaningful things.”
“When 9/11 happened, I was like, ‘I gotta do something.’ I went and talked to the recruiters, and I found out about the Special Forces 18X program. They take qualified people off the street, and they give them a shot at Special Forces. I was like, ‘So I could go try out for Special Forces?’”
“I have a pretty amazing life. Even back-to-back deployments – Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey – it’s still pretty rewarding.”
“I dominated Michael Bisping.”
“I don’t need MMA, but I love fighting. Those are very different things.”
“I’m a Christian, and I give the glory to God.”
Timothy Fred is a retired artist of American Mixed martial who is known as tim kennedy. He worked from 2001 to 2016. There are many places where he fought like-
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He was born on 1 September 1979 in San Luis Obispo, California, United States and become famous for his fights. He was a well-known professional in doing the fighting and this is the thing that makes him different from others.
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Tim achieved multiple awards in that one of the best was getting Army’s bronze star medal. There are many other things that you will get to know if you searched about Tim on any social sites.
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