Quotes from Charles Oliveira

I injured my neck in training, but did physical therapy and thought everything was fine, but when I fell against the cage everything went numb, I couldn't feel my body.

I had no easy fights ever since I joined the UFC.

The new trend in MMA is to talk trash and curse to get a fight, but I'll never change who I am.

Why 'Do Bronx'? Because I'm from the slums, those are my roots.

When I get in the cage I am smiling because I am having fun.

The only thing Kevin Lee does better than me is talk and sell fights like that. I sell fights my own way, inside the cage.

I don't come with the goal of submitting, knocking out or getting bonuses. I come to do my job, to show that a humble guy can chase what he wants.

Stop messing around sending me unranked fighters. I want someone ranked, someone that will take me closer to my goal, which is to become champion.

Jim Miller is an important fight for me. It's just like any other fight, but it's important for me because Jim Miller was the first guy to defeat me.

Everything in life has its perfect moments.

I have fun when I fight, and I am going to have a lot of crazy moves.

I'm a professional fighter. My game plan is to fight standing up and to fight on the ground.

Anthony Pettis, he's a really tough fighter and it was a close fight until I made a mistake and gave him the neck.

I would fight McGregor in any weight, no problem. It would be a good fight, I'd really like to fight him.

It's easy to enter the UFC, but staying there isn't.

I'm staying lighter because I want to go back to 145.

Everybody knows where I come from and how my jiu-jitsu is, training at Macaco Gold Team, but I also work on my striking at Chute Boxe Diego Lima, so I'm prepared on the feet and on the ground.

I fought three opponents in one night two or three times, but never five rounds.

To stay in the UFC while fighting top opponents... tell me one easy fight I had in the UFC. I have a history in the UFC.

I have a great jiu-jitsu game and I'm awesome at submissions.

If I see an opening, I'll go for the submission.

Becoming the guy with most submissions in UFC history at age 28, breaking Royce's record, will definitely give me more leverage with the UFC. I'll get more attention and more sponsors. It helps a lot.

I think the only thing that happened when I fought Jim Miller is that I was a just kid, he had way more experience. I was winning the fight, landing punches and trying to get 10 submissions at the same time, and Jim Miller went for one attack only, a kneebar, and got it. His experience made the difference.

My friends joke that I'm a young veteran in the UFC.