Quotes from Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

When you're fighting five rounds, I know I gotta move a lot.

In five rounds, the guy who is better prepared is going to win the fight, so I like the idea of a five-round fight.

I love the training routine but I have to be 100 percent to fight.

Guys who are my friends, guys who I visit their homes, I don't feel like fighting those guys.

I had many fights in Pride, many battles there.

I'm a perfectionist. You have to perform at your best.

When you wake up in the morning and have good training and learn something, have good adrenaline and you're going to face some good guys in the gym, that keeps you warm.

Fighting in the cage brings much more adrenaline than fighting in the ring. When you step inside the Octagon and they close the door, that's really a high adrenaline feeling because they enclose you and one guy in the cage.

When I was younger, I went to wrestling camps. We'd fly in wrestling guys from the U.S. to Brazil.

Every single fighter in the UFC dreams to be the champ.

For those who believed in me or not, because I knew there'd be people in there who didn't believe in me but would cheer for me.

Nothing compares to when you are in coma and you hear voices and think you are dying. Then you come out of the coma and hear more voices saying you will not walk, not play sports, not be normal. And all the time your mind is fighting back saying, you will be strong, you will fight.

There are many promotions in Russia, and they are taking Brazilians to fight there. We need to do something about the Brazilian market, make it stronger to produce new fighters. We need new talents competing here, not there. They have no other option but fight outside of Brazil because there are few options here.

I've been working for the UFC since I stopped fighting. It's been very exciting, looking at all the new guys, all the young talents in Brazil and trying to help them out, promote themselves and get them into the UFC.

I'm excited to fight in Abu Dhabi and to compete against Roy Nelson because he's a dangerous opponent and demands a lot of respect and hard training to beat. He's a knockout artist and really well-rounded, so you need to be well trained to fight someone like him.

I have no prejudice against the gays, but I wouldn't train with someone who's gay.

You know what, if I had to do it all again, I would do the same things as before. I would meet the same people, make a lot of friends, bring a lot of happiness to my country. I get to travel all over the world, doing seminars. I have thousands of students in the Nogueira gyms.

I was at a birthday party and a truck backed up and the wheels ran over my chest. I lost part of my lung and my liver.

Derek Brunson is aggressive, knows how to close the distance, but couldn't do anything against Anderson.

A lot of guys came in after me and they quit before me. I've seen that a lot. That's motivation. That's teamwork, I don't do that myself.

I have 16 metal screws in my right arm, from the elbow to the shoulder, and they are extremely painful at the beginning of a training camp and also when the temperature changes. I also had a surgery on my left arm and two on my hips. Those four surgeries were pivotal in my decision to retire.

I love to be around the fighters, training. That's my favorite thing.

Ortiz, Wanderlei and Fedor were top fighters for a reason.

In training, I'm always being tested. I believe that if I'm training well, I will fight well.