Quotes About Matchup

A Brooklyn-Miami matchup would bring great ratings and that's what this is all about for the NBA and the league offices - bringing in as many dollars as they can.

I think the tight end position is so unique because you always have a mismatch if you know how to dial it up or use it right.

With my size and receiving skills, I would hope I could cause some matchup problems for defenses, and that some team sees that.

I think with every heavyweight, there's a style that makes for a different fight with different fighters.

I feel like I'm a matchup problem, but that's of course because of my height and the height difference at my position sometimes.

Every matchup is very important regardless of who the bigs are, who the guards are.

Next fight? If the UFC tell me, 'What do you want?' I'm going to say Tony Ferguson.

There are a lot of different things we have in the tool box in every different fight, but depending on the matchup we decide what we are going to take out and kind of play with.

If they could put us all in a tournament, that'd be the best way, but they're not going to do that here at the UFC.

I definitely think the way the game is transforming, becoming more and more athletic, guys are great athletes out here and relying on the physical skills more than their tennis skills, almost, sometimes. So for that reason, matching up with some of these guys, I can't keep up.

When Joe Silva called me with the Trigg fight, I said, 'Hell yeah.' It's a matchup that excites me a lot.

I think T. J. Dillashaw and Demetrious Johnson - I'm a bad matchup for both of them.

The league is shifting. It's becoming a smaller league, way more speed-dominant. So you're seeing more backs like me who can run between the tackles, pass-protect, catch and become matchup nightmares. You also have more receivers who are getting jet sweeps, doing different things with the ball in their hands.

We've seen smaller guys in main event fights, and they do well. It just takes the right combination of people I think. I think Dominick Cruz v. T.J. Dillashaw could have main-evented a PPV and done pretty good.

I believe that style-wise, matchup-wise, I matchup much better against Anderson Silva than Jon Jones, but it doesn't mean that I'm scared to fight at 205.

I match up against everybody well. I just have to stay consistent and keep going out there winning fights.

One fight I would love to see, I have always loved to see, but I doubt it will ever happen, is Georges St-Pierre and Conor go at it. I think it would be a huge mega fight.

If I'm man-to-man with a linebacker, well, that's an automatic win because I can run by him. If I'm one-on-one against a corner, I'm gonna catch it all day, because I'm twice his size.

It's a duel between us, a long-standing matchup that has defined our relationship over the years: fighting to hide the emotions, but knowing exactly what the other is feeling, and battling to not be the first to break.

You have to be even better as a coach than as a player in dropping what happened, good or bad, and moving on to the next one, because there is always a new matchup to prepare for.

I want Keith Thurman. He has two of the belts, and we both have big names. It's an easy fight to make, and I want it.

There's a lot of girls in the division I really like, but I always feel like there's this underlying sense of a potential matchup, potential competition. It adds a different element.

The only thing that's going to be more epic than Roy Nelson fighting Mark Hunt is Roy Nelson fighting for the belt. Those are two fights that I know fans want to see.

I don't want to fight no up-and-coming guy, no guy that's 15-0 but hasn't faced anybody yet.