Quotes from Bruce Buffer

I was invited to have a private sparring session with Royce Gracie. This was 1992, a year before the first UFC. It was just me and him in a room on the mat.

I was a motivational speaker and I've been in front of crowds a lot and I'm very comfortable with that.

When I first started with the UFC, that classic saying of spectacle over sport was very, very true. I believed in the sport, I believed in what I was doing and I believed in the people behind it.

There's always mountains to climb and I'm always open for another challenge.

It's blows me away how much attention there is to the way I move in the Octagon when announcing as I've been moving this way for years.

I've had multiple concussions. I've had to stop fighting when I was 32, because according to my doctor, it was the 2nd concussion. No, it was the 2nd concussion he knew of.

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I had to fight for everything I've achieved in my life - which is true about all of us. And I truly believe that we are all created equal. It's about the paths we choose.

Let me parachute out of a plane, land on a stadium, and announce it. I'll do it. I'm always game for something.

A puncher's chance means that anyone has the potential to succeed, whatever the odds or circumstances, if he or she works for it.

I'm sure that if Ronda could take time off, go to the gym and train for three months for a fight with Holly Holm with absolutely no distractions, I don't even want to imagine the Ronda Rousey we're going to see come out. Again, we are talking top of the food chain, Olympic, amazing athlete.

Any UFC fan has got to experience a live event at least one time. The energy and the production value is incredible. The experience is like being at a rock concert.

When you create a nucleus of activity and it starts gaining steam, what you want to do in business is you want to create as many streams or legs out of that nucleus as possible.

I like to go out there and be organic and improvise off the energy I feel from the crowd, whether it's 50,000 or 20,000 or 10,000 people in the audience.

I'm all about passion, everything I do is with a passion that is the reason why I announce the way I do.

You can't announce the way I announce if you're not into it.

My brother happens to be the greatest announcer in sports and entertainment history.

I was asked to come and appear on 'Friends,' and I did.

There's a boxer called Lucia Rijker, she's vicious, and Nunes is very much like her.

Collecting Topps trading cards when I was a kid or playing video games when I was younger, and suddenly seeing myself on Topps trading cards and videogames... it's a complete honor.

I eat right, I train right, I've been an athlete my entire life.

Some people say I'm a legend - that's not for me to say, but some people have said it.