Quotes from Tito Ortiz

My kids come first on all measures.

I understand my limits. I'm not going to go out there just to fight for money and to put on a show for people at the risk of my own health. I won't do that.

Scott Coker's been amazing to work with.

The UFC makes about 99 percent of the money, and the rest goes to the fighters. That one percent ain't nothing compared to what they make on merchandising, on pay-per-view, and everything else they make around the world.

I remember from the very beginning when I walked out at UFC 40, when we had the big lights, the flames, everything. Fans want to see entertainment.

Man's best friend - that's what dogs are. I have two dogs. I love and treat them like family.

I know what it feels like to be broke and alone, and I don't ever want my loved ones to see that or know what it's like.

Negativity just sucks the life out of somebody.

I don't wanna fight a street fighter.

The whole bad-boy image was for the cage, and that's it. It wasn't an act because it came from a passion for fighting.

Shlemenko wants to make his name off of Tito Ortiz. He's not the first person ever to do this. People have been trying to use my name ever since I was the champ.

Retiring as the champion and being the only athlete to ever do that, I think goals like that are set in the mind. I want to make that happen.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

I've been through every surgery that any athlete has ever been through, and I've prevailed through it.

After having my first surgery in 2003, having an ACL replacement, I never thought I'd be able to compete again.

Why not be a man and fight like a man.

I just think God put me on this earth as a tool... showing people you can achieve stuff once you set you mind to things, that it can be accomplished.

God put me on this earth to be a tool.

Once someone watches me compete, I'm part of them forever.

I love to compete.

I fight on emotions. When I don't fight on emotions, I don't fight well. I fight on emotion, because I'm in for survival.

In the UFC, at first we were like a family, but then it turned corporate. In Bellator, we're family.

Maybe UFC and Bellator should take care of the fighters when their careers are done, as the NFL takes care of their players. Because they're making so much money off us.

I've tasted the dirt side. I've tasted being broke. I've been in the dumps, I've lived in motels as a kid. I want a different opportunity for my children. I never want them to see those things.