Quotes from Quinton Jackson

Fighters are my comrades. There are a lot of them with great personalities, they're great fighters, and they should be lifted up a little bit more. I just wish MMA would do that.

I have this creative mind where I can create a lot of different things, but a lot of people never really gave me the chance and opportunity to do that because when they see me, they just see this dumb fighter that fights in the cage and howls like a wolf and knocks people out.

When the going gets tough, the leeches are nowhere to be found, but the real people - the real friends - are with you through thick and thin.

The UFC's a great company; they're doing great things for the sport. I just don't feel like they're doing great things for me.

I never want to be in the UFC Hall of Fame.

I want to avoid every punch you throw at me, but I'm not scared to get hit. But I'm not just going to let everybody hit me.

If I do a reality show, it'll have to be a real reality show. I can't do a scripted reality show.

I started kinda late with wrestling in high school, and I wasn't doing so well - I lost my first five matches in a row, and my little brother said 'wear this chain for good luck... ' and told me it might intimidate some of my opponents. Sure enough, when I wore the chain I went all the way to the regional finals.

Back in elementary I used to tell all the girls I was related to Michael Jackson. But as I got older I think it worked for me less and less.

I'm not a pro wrestler. I don't have what I'm supposed to say written for me.

I noticed when I started wrestling that I was a defensive wrestler and that people make mistakes.

I've always been a defensive wrestler, but when I go in there in the fights, I get so caught up in trying to knock people's heads off that wrestling goes out the window when you're throwing punches and kicks and stuff.

I do MMA, but I feel like a pro wrestler at heart. That's why I fight the way I fight in MMA. That's why I slam people and stuff around.

I used to want to be a pro wrestler first, a stuntman if I couldn't do that, and a fireman to fall back on. The guy who used to live across the street from me was the fire chief, so he was going to help me out if I didn't succeed at the other things.

I'm sick of fighting all these damn wrestlers.

I like to see my hand raised at the end of the night. I like when the ref raises my hand. That's why I shave my armpits like the professionals wrestlers. I like to see my arm raised.

Quinton and Rampage are not the same person. Quinton is kind of scruffy. The Rampage is the toughest dude you'll ever want to meet.

Take Wanderlei Silva, everybody knows we don't like each other, but if he's fighting I'm going to watch because he's a very exciting fighter. I'm a Wanderlei Silva fan, but Sonnen, I don't know why people watch him. They probably watch him to hear his interview after his fight.

I know why I lose fights. If you don't know why you lost a fight or won a fight, you shouldn't be fighting. I know when I do right when I win, and I know what I do wrong when I lose.

You can tell when people don't like you. Especially being a black man born and raised in the South in America, you can tell when people don't like you. It's just a skill that you get.

My kids are from Japan. My kids grandparents are from there, and they never really watched me fight back in the day.

I wouldn't mind going back to Japan and fight. That's what my heart really wants to do.

Honestly, if I gave my thoughts on the match-making in the UFC, Joe Silva probably wouldn't even talk to me anymore, so I'm going to keep quiet on that.

I talk trash, but the thing is, I talk trash about people I'm actually going to fight, who are actually in my weight class.