Quotes from Quinton Jackson

In America, you've got a lot of fair-weather fans, who be cheering for you hard and as soon as you lose a fight, you're a bum and then they come at you on social media and they give you a lot of slack.

I don't really want to fight the real big boys, because I noticed that I tried to pick Ishii up at the end of the fight, I was trying to go for a slam and I was like, 'This dude is too big.'

If I'm the promoter and I've got a fighter named 'Rampage' who likes to slam people and knock them out, the last thing I would do is put him in a fight with someone who's good at holding people down.

When the smoke clears and the money and opportunities lessen, so do the people around you who you think might have your best interests in mind.

I lost my fight to Jon Jones because Jon Jones is a better fighter.

I love fighting, I love the sport, I love that feeling when you win or knock someone out.

I try to knock people out and try to make an exciting fight.

Acting is kind of gay. It makes you soft. You got all these people combing your hair and putting a coat over your shoulders when you're cold. I don't want a coat over my shoulders!

No matter how much money you make, you still have to look in the mirror.

A lot of top fighters, what do they do after they retire from fighting? They're real popular. Like Tito Ortiz. They've got so much momentum, they're so popular and then they fall off the face of the Earth. They should take acting lessons. They should keep their fans.

A lot of times you do interviews and people twist your words. TMZ said something like I hate my male fans. I never said that, I said I wish I had more female fans, never said I hate male fans.

When you're in the public eye and do interviews, your words get twisted and people put you in a negative light.

Not many fighters respect Chael Sonnen because he's in the wrong sport. He should be in pro-wrestling with a mouth like that.

If a fan is cool, I'm cool with him. A fan could turn into a friend. But some people act super weird, and they make it uncomfortable for you.

Even though we don't speak the same language, we're friends. I still make him laugh. You know it's hard to make Fedor laugh, he don't change his facial expressions at all. I don't even know if he understands what I be saying, but when he gets around me, he be smiling.

In Bellator, they don't attack you for your sponsors. They get you sponsors. They don't get mad at you for doing movies. They get you movies.

A person like Roy Nelson, a lot of people can relate to him. A lot of Americans look like him, especially where I come from in the South.

I would have to honestly say that my biggest regret is even starting this sport. I think I would've lived a different life if I would've stayed home in Memphis and worked at the family business. I'd be closer to my family and growing old with them instead of living out at California.

I fought some guy who looked like Steven Seagal, some aikido guy or something. The fight's not even on my record, I don't remember his name. My dad was there at the fight and he said he blinked and he missed the fight, so I think I finished him fast or something. I forgot all about that fight.

Fedor is one of the most gentlest giants you ever want to meet. I've got the utmost respect for him.

I don't want to have to wear the same outfit that the other fighters wear. I don't want to blend in.

Vancouver strikes me as a San Francisco-kind of place.

Victory means I knocked someone out, that I got paid, and that I'll be able to get it to my kids.

I'm more than just a fighter, I'm an entertainer, I like to entertain people.