Quotes from Scott Coker

When you think about martial arts here in the states, kickboxing was here in the '70s, and it kind of ran its course. But I always felt there was a place in combat sports for kickboxing.

In my years of doing the K1 fights, one thing I've learned is that the guys who you think will be there in the end - very rarely do you get the match up you were hoping for.

Great fights means great TV ratings.

Marloes Coenen is the real deal.

You get a world-class athlete like Hershel Walker, who was a Heisman trophy winner and did some amazing things, but he had a martial arts background. He did kickboxing. He had a combat sports background. It was just rekindling that training and that martial arts workout ethic. He got back into it and did quite well.

I love big events. It reminds me of the old days, when I knew everyone on the fight card, and it wasn't just one fight.

MMA has a great safety record. I was always confused as to why it was illegal in New York in the first place.

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.

Tournaments, traditionally, are kind of the way martial arts contests happen.

When I first came to Bellator, I wanted to take it back to what we accomplished at Strikeforce and look at the next generation. So we signed the Aaron Picos of the world and put them in our development programme to nurture them.

I'm not thinking of any other leagues. I'm really not. I'm thinking of what can I do to move Bellator forward. I'm thinking of what we need to fix, what fighters we should sign, where we can expand internationally.

I worked for a Japanese company called K1 for a while.

We are all shocked and saddened by the devastating and untimely loss of Kimbo Slice, a beloved member of the Bellator family.

The experience I've had with Strikeforce kickboxing, K1, Strikeforce MMA, working with ESPN, working with Showtime, working with Japanese television, working with fighter camps from all over the world has given me a unique perspective.

Mike Goldberg and Mauro Ranallo are two of the best in our business, and I couldn't be happier about them joining the Bellator family.

We have a zero tolerance policy here at Bellator when it relates to any form of domestic violence.

There are a lot of details you have to work out when you're talking about fighters competing twice in one night.

When you think about mixed martial arts, you have to think about the entire scope of the athlete.

To say martial arts, or the combative form - mixed martial arts - is not an art form is incorrect.

We're not going to do monthly pay-per-view just to do pay-per-views. We're going to build up to big fights more like the boxing model, and when the time is right, we'll do the big, big fights.

MMA fans should thank Spike TV for their commitment to the sport.

I would say, look, any fighter that's out there or any star athlete - not star athlete in the sense of a baseball player, but like a Brock Lesnar - that really wants to fight, we're going to have a conversation with them. Because if they can move the needle, we're going to want them on Spike TV.

It's good to team up with Spike and Viacom. I see a lot of potential.

I used to go to fights in Japan, mega shows at soccer stadiums. They would have all kinds of martial arts fights in one night.