Quotes from Jorge Masvidal

I've got more mat hours than most of the guys who are grapplers got on the mat.

I get along just fine with Woodley. He's actually showed me a lot things in the past, and I've worked with him in the past training to help him get ready to fight. There's no hard feelings if me and hit had to scrap.

A fight is usually longer than five seconds.

I want to put money away in the bank.

If it was... let's say they just banned 170, that it was either 55 or 85, I'd go to 185 before I'd go to 55.

You know I could get hit with a baseball bat and it don't mean nothing.

I never think past any man, because every guy has two hands and every dude wants to hurt you.

I just like to fight, man. The place doesn't really bother me.

This is a sport of a lot of knowledge, of knowing yourself well, knowing your soul and your spirit, your abilities both physically and mentally.

I've got a big buzz going on because I'm known and put people to sleep.

A guy like Anderson Silva is one the greatest champions we've had.

My body fat at 173 is five percent, so the rest is just straight water that I lose.

I think the sport is growing and along with it weight classes have to be added.

My coaches know when it's a big fight, I'm at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.

If I can compete five, six times a year that would be perfect.

I'm here to compete and to keep beating people up.

At any given moment, if I see my bully, the guy who's trying to conquer me, we're going to find out. And if we could fight every time we came across each other, we would.

The main reason I'm in this sport is not to run mouths and make posts on Twitter and stuff. It's to compete.

I'm a dirty south goon - damn right, I ain't no West coast gangster.

I just want to go out and compete. Plus the main thing is, at 55 I need a good amount of time to prepare just to make the weight cut. At 70 I can just take fights as they come and just compete as much as I want.

I'm not going to get tired in a 12 round boxing event, especially if I have time to prepare for it.

When I get anxiety and depression and things like that, I take to eating.

I've been fighting professionally since I was 18, and I've been doing three or four fights a year, just doing camp after camp.

I'm a real fighter.