Quotes from Bruce Buffer

I put everything I can into my announcing, and the moment I can't perform physically, vocally, then it will be time for me to retire.

I've done shows with one leg; I've done three shows in a row, blown-out back.

You always have to anticipate. You never know when things are going to change, so you have to be prepared.

I expected Ronda to be a beast. You know what? Ronda's a beast.

I read these articles where people are calling me a fashion icon, which kind of makes me laugh, but if that's the way they perceive it that's all good.

Superman walks around with an 'S' on his chest. I walk around with a 'P' on my chest, and that P stands for Passion.

I've been into martial arts since I was 12. I had black belts in a style called Tang Soo Do, and also I kickboxed for a number of years.

I have to say that I bow to Dana White and I bow to the Fertitta brothers every time I see them.

I saw this man come out. This very handsome, debonair James Bond style man with an incredible voice. All of a sudden I'm becoming a fan and then he started putting his name on the TV screen and it said Michael Buffer and I thought 'are you kidding me?'

Whatever you do, it's important you do it with passion. Whether you're a CEO, a fighter or a bus boy.

Most married men are completely jealous of my existence - the way it's designed. As far as, surrogate wife, surrogate kids.

I'm not one of those people who say last year I caught a fish this big or I surfed a wave 20 feet or something. It's a matter of what I do today. Everything else is a pleasurable memory.

My dad was mixture of John Wayne, Steve McQueen and Errol Flynn all rolled up into one. He was a really tough guy. He taught me how to fight literally when I was four years old. He taught me street-fighting techniques.

Poker is a great game and feeds my need for competition a lot.

When there's a decision and it was a close fight, you build up the drama. I announce the first two scores, and then I have a count in my head, right up to the point where everyone is on the edge of their seats thinking 'Come on!' and then I hit them with it.

I hate to stand still and announce like everyone else... this is the UFC, the greatest event in sports and deserves the most excitement that can be generated when announcing these great main events that happen in the Octagon.

To me, all business is the same it's just the product that's different and you can have a diamond in your hand, but if you don't market it correctly, it just becomes another piece of coal.

I will never disgrace the sacred ground of the octagon.

Conor has got the X factor.

No woman has ever professionally, to my knowledge, fought a man in a professionally commissioned, sanctioned fight. And it's not going to happen. I mean, I'd be amazed if that ever happened. It's not gonna happen.

I promote the UFC, I support it, I do my job, but the show's about the fighters and the fans. It's not about me. I'm there to enhance the moment for the fighters and enhance the moment for the fans.

I feed off the energy of the crowd.

Georges St-Pierre is one of the greatest pound-for-pound fighters in the world.

I know what it's like to take punches.