Quotes from Chael Sonnen

I see a lot of people try to come out and copy me, duplicate me, and give it the old college try, but at the end of the day, there's only one Chael Sonnen.

I have never asked the crowd for their approval, and I will never start.

I've been in a position where I've been barely doing any damage, and the ref stopped it. It's just sport.

I've suffered rib injuries, but I've never had a broken one. I've dislocated it and popped it, and even that, a big step down from broken, it hurts so bad. But you can't really move. You can't even fully breathe and take a deep breath of air.

The fight takes 15 minutes. The build-up takes 90 days. It takes that for a reason.

For me, I prefer to be the heel.

What you don't want is for somebody to not care. Whenever they have no feeling at all, that's bad. Even if they kind of like you or they kind of don't, that's also bad. It's got to be a strong emotion one way or the other.

I was in Las Vegas when the Nogueira brothers first touched down in America. There was a bus - this is a true story. There was a bus that pulled up to a red light, and Little Nog tried to feed it a carrot while Big Nog was petting it. He thought it was a horse. This really happened.

The greatest form of expression - or, at least, the most common that we have as human beings, what separates us from the animals - is speaking: the ability to communicate.

Sports are something that, for the most part, are for kids, and if you're able to extend your career, you're very lucky.

I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.

Fans don't even know what they want at times.

Georges St-Pierre is the greatest fighter to have ever done it.

I've had a lot of fights, and they haven't all gone my way.

If you call a Brazilian out publicly, you're going to be fighting that Brazilian. That's in their culture.

I will not pretend to be something that I'm not. I certainly won't do it to win the audience over.

I thought if you tapped out, you lost the round. Come to find out, you actually lose the fight.

I didn't get to go to school functions growing up. I didn't get to go to dances. I was never invited to a party ever. Until I got to college and threw a party, I had never even been to one.

Werdum's open to being knocked out in any fight because he's so reckless, but that's also what makes him so damn dynamic.

My dad was a plumber. That's hard work. He never missed a day of work. I will never disrespect him by not showing up for an athletic competition that has a maximum duration of 25 minutes. There should be forfeiture if you have to pull out of a fight. If you don't show up, it should be a loss on your record.

I'm not going to be one of the guys who hangs around if he doesn't have a road to the title.

Brock Lesnar made a career out of refusing to do media and not being accessible.

I'm a Republican.

I'm a wrestler, so I'm used to not being paid, and I'm used to doing five or six competitions a day and paying someone else to allow me into the event.