Beyond the Fight: Guillard vs. Miller
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Melvin Guillard does not see any room for weakness, in life or
in the cage. | Photo: Sherdog.com
‘I think of myself as an Achilles’
“When it comes to competition, I’m fearless. I’m not afraid to get into the cage with anybody, and I think everybody knows that by now. I’m not afraid to die in the ring. That’s my attitude; that’s my mentality. And I think of it, like, if you ever watch the movie ‘Troy’ and you remember Brad Pitt, he played Achilles. I think of myself as an Achilles. The only difference is, I wake up the morning and instead of, like, a bed full of women, I got my wife and my two dogs -- soon to be three -- that’s in the bed, and I feel like a king. That’s my attitude. I feel like, if I was back in the Roman days, I would be that assassin that they would use to go and take out the big giant.
“I don’t take anything for granted because I know one day you can be in the UFC and this sport and the next day you can be cut and lose your job, or even worse you can have a life–threatening injury and never fight again … I try to wake up happy every day and have goals that’s not too outrageous to meet. I like to set small goals and meet them, so I can get to those bigger goals.
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‘I love fighting.’
“You’re fighting at that moment in time. There’s so many different ways a fight can end and a fight can go. And you really only have one opportunity, and, typically, it’s whoever gains that momentum first. [Just] because a fight ends one way once doesn’t mean it will ever end that way again, if it happened again. I take my wins like that, knowing that I took advantage of my opponents that night, that I made things work for me.
“I love fighting. I got into fighting because I enjoy it, and I fight for myself. That’s really what it is about. I fight because I can provide for my family doing this, but I don’t need to do it for them. If I had to give up fighting, I could give up fighting in a heartbeat for my family. For me, it puts it in perspective. This is ... it is just a job.
“I’m not the type that I want to be remembered. It doesn’t really keep me awake at night, it doesn’t bother me. I think if people think about me [I want them to think] ‘The guy always fought as hard as he could.’ I’d be happy with that. I’d like to be champion and all that stuff, but, yeah, just fought as hard as he could.”
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