Quotes from Glover Teixeira

I was always a hard worker, and that's why I got invited to come to America. My uncle actually said, 'You've to go to America. You work like this in America, you're gonna make a lot more money.'

There are always holes in anyone's game.

We have to deal with small injuries that get worse as time goes by.

I want to be remembered as a fighter who gives it his all.

I don't much believe in the hype of anything or anybody, not even myself.

I am Sobralia's biggest idol now; people love and support me a lot there. There are always some people to criticize you, but that's okay - 99.9 percent of the people there support me.

I grew up watching 'Vale Tudo' and Marco Ruas. I fight imagining the bouts from a past generation, when everything was legal.

You have to keep improving.

A lot of fighters just go to the gym and spar or wrestle, but they forget about their conditioning. Things like that cause lots of injuries.

Guys want to make a name for themselves, they look at my age and think they will run over me. It's not like that, though. I'm tougher than that.

You do get injuries in this sport. More than in other sports.

Nobody trains 'eye poke defense.'

I have fought with 'Rampage' Jackson and I took him down easily. Honestly, I scored six takedowns effortlessly. I have fought Ryan Bader and I took him down too.

The guys I lost to always challenged the title, because they were, like, title eliminators. I lost to Alexander Gustafsson and Anthony Johnson and they fought for the belt. Then I won fights against really tough guys.

Seven years I worked in landscaping. It was a good job, I don't complain. I liked going out to different houses every day, traveling.

I'm a farm guy, so I like to work outside, dealing with the trees and that kind of stuff.

I grew up in a very small town, on a farm. There was not even a TV in my house at that time. I didn't have much connection with the outside world and couldn't see martial arts. When I was 10 or 12, that's when we got our first TV. We only had maybe two channels. At 16 years old, I remember watching Marco Ruas on TV.

Anthony Smith is super tough.

We never want anything bad to happen, especially to an athlete like Jon Jones.

If they call me to fight Jon Jones, I'm ready to fight anyone in the UFC.

I don't have anything against Jon Jones. We are fighters and we do whatever we want with our lives.

Without a doubt Jon Jones is one of the greatest fighters in history, and, of course, we do see errors that we'll try to exploit.

Jon Jones is the best fighter in history.

I want to fight Anthony Johnson again, for sure. I want to fight Jon Jones again. I want to fight the guys that beat me, those who are at the top.