Quotes from Vitor Belfort

I was the youngest champion of the UFC.

You've got to respect your body and know the time to transition to what's next. A lot of athletes cannot transition. They don't have nothing to do after.

It's never late to go after your dreams. All it takes is believing and hard work.

I have a life of sacrifice. I don't have a normal social life.

Some things really don't matter.

My mindset as an athlete and as a man is to accept what God is asking me to do and to live my life expressing God's word.

With Carlson Gracie, who saw something in me, I started learning and loved mixing together the martial arts.

It's not about motivation. It's about what's driven inside of you.

Eighteen years doing this, my friend. Eighteen years - combat sport. I think you will not find this in history, I believe.

I lost a lot of money with sponsors.

Everything you do involves sacrifice. My work is to honor my principles, my opponent, and what I believe in. I stand for it, I fight, and I try to get better every day as a human being.

Like in combat when you're in chaos, a Navy SEAL in chaos, you cannot be afraid of dying for a cause.

I don't even think in the future, pay-per-view is going to exist. You see Netflix and Amazon and what they're doing, and that's a model I think is going to grow and grow.

Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I'm doing for the next generation.

I made some adaptations, as I combined karate with my boxing game. I'm adding a couple of nice things from Shotokan to my game.

How many fighters are going to be able to leave the legacy that I did? Nineteen years old, I came and I conquered.

I learned that education and sport are the bedrock for any person, but education comes first, no doubt about it.

I've had some ups and downs in my personal life, but I have overcame them.

I don't think Apple would be making the computers, the iPhone, being the top electronics company it is, if Steve Jobs didn't have some regrets over mistakes he made and learned to overcome them.

You never show what you are going to do; you always do what the opponent doesn't expect.

My idea is to have two bases. I keep my family in Rio, and when I have a fight scheduled, I will come to Vegas to train here at Xtreme Couture, which I consider the best place for a MMA fighter to be.

The truth is the Vintage Vitor never left.

I do believe my legacy outside of the Octagon is just as good as it is inside of it.