Chael Sonnen on Intensity
Channel: ufcpig
Date: 2012-01-12

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"One thing on intensity, and I hope that we're all old enough that I can tell this without people taking it for something that it's not, but when we're being intense and we're out there and we're competing — wrestling, fighting, MMA, whatever it is — I need to match my partner's intensity. I can't let him come in and bully me," Sonnen explained. "I can't let him pick on me. For some of you younger guys, eventually you'll be getting into high school as freshman and these older guys are gonna push you around a little bit. Then you'll go back and do it to the next group. It's just the way that it works. You get to college and it's intimidating because the intensity's a little different. You gotta match 'em."

"If they go first, you match 'em instantly. If a guy clubs you, you club him as hard or harder and you do it right then. Don't wait a minute and come back with it. He clubs you, you club him right then [and] he'll stop doin' it," Chael said. "Okay? He will stop...if you're in a match and the guy gets intense, you get intense right there, right then. As hard or harder right now and he'll stop doin' it. Okay? One-up him."

"If he slaps you, punch him. If he punches you, kick him. If he kicks you, stab him. If he stabs you, shoot him," he stated flatly. "If he shoots you, you go kill his family. You guys get the point there?"

 "One-up him and you do it right then. Don't let him push you around. It's a practice...it's a mindset... of course I'm not talkin' about hurting someone, but what I'm talking about is we gotta match 'em and we gotta do it right now, okay? You can't go, 'Aw, this guy slapped me on Tuesday, so on Friday I'm gonna get even with him,' okay? If he clubs you, you club him right back," Sonnen confusingly explained. "That'll keep everything level and that will up everybody's intensity."