Quotes from Matt Serra

Seriously, you tell me, if you aim at something, and then hit it time and time again, was it luck or did you just do what you were trying to do?

I'm not going to get a shot at the title and be timid, that's for sure.

I am an expert on the floor and I am dangerous in all areas, not to toot my own horn.

Listen I'm not going into a fight with Matt Hughes thinking that this guy is done. There's a reason the guy is going to be a Hall of Famer.

I've always bragged that I fought some guys in the Hall of Fame, legends like B.J. Penn and Matt Hughes and they always knew they were in a fight, but now I'm in there, so I can't even use that line.

I'd love to fight Matt Hughes again.

Me and Hughes, we're two different kinds of people.

I don't like feeling too tight. Like if you bench too much, you feel like you can't move your arms right.

I'll crack jokes in the locker room, I don't care. I don't gotta impress nobody.

I'm on the mat six times a week, so I got on the TRT. I had some back issues and I'm always on he mat, so I had my levels checked. So I went and my things were in the 300s or whatever, so I'm like really, wow... so I'm a candidate?

I beat St. Pierre, who's a physical specimen, a better wrestler, and supposedly a better striker. People thought I was gonna get killed. But I have experience in wars with the best guys in the world. I knew at the very least he'd be in the hospital with me.

You never know what could happen with injuries.

Dominick Cruz is the unluckiest fighter of all time. I mean the injuries that this guy's had.

My teachers used to point to the jail across the street and say that's where my fists would land me.

When Joe Silva called me with the Trigg fight, I said, 'Hell yeah.' It's a matchup that excites me a lot.

I'm a New Yorker, I say what's on my mind, because not being that way, what's the point of that? People may think this is hype, but you look back before at my other fights and you see that I don't talk trash.

I never missed weight.

You want to know what's really exciting? In Montreal, it's called a Patrick Cote house party.

If I beat Hughes they'll say he was done before our fight. There's always going to be those guys that play up the negative part of it, I don't pay too much attention to that.

I consider the Diaz brothers friends. They're like extended family, them being under Cesar and me being under Renzo, we've always had mutual respect. They're such respectful guys. People don't know that about them, but they really are.

I ain't tall, but I'm not angry. I'm not angry about not being tall. I like it. It's like the automatic underdog all the time. So it's awesome.

I know Lytle likes to bang, but I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to take me down. Not for fear of my hands, but strategically he could look to put me down. He's shown he's very dangerous with submissions. His ground game has been very underrated.

It is not overwhelming, like you are George Clooney, but at the Starbucks, at the 7-Eleven or walking around Manhattan or the Roosevelt Field Mall, I do get recognized. It's nice.

You can think somebody's stealing from the cookie jar, but if you don't catch him you don't catch him.