Quotes About UFC

I think the UFC does a pretty good job of backing me.

I'll fight anyone the UFC wants me to beat and defeat them.

If you depend on the UFC for sponsorships, the only money you get is in-cage sponsorships? Then I don't feel, as a manager, that you're doing your job.

I felt like I deserved a title shot a few times in the UFC and was kind of passed over.

I hate to stand still and announce like everyone else... this is the UFC, the greatest event in sports and deserves the most excitement that can be generated when announcing these great main events that happen in the Octagon.

I found wrestling when I was 11 years old. About two years later, I convinced my mom to let me rent my first UFC tape. I was fascinated by the sport.

It's up to the UFC, but I'll fight whomever, whenever. Minus maybe Vegas.

Any of my previous fights before the UFC and 'the Ultimate Fighter' were all main events and co-main events.

It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.

Rampage Jackson came to the UFC with a brain. He came to the UFC with a huge following from being in Asia with Pride. He was a personality before he came to the UFC. You don't see them putting marketing money behind him to blow him up.

There's a feeling of invincibility that comes with being young, with being fit and in the prime of your life. But I learned when I was in the Marines just like I've learned as a UFC fighter that no one is invincible, and that you have to project yourself at all times.

I'd say for sure though, read the fine print in the contract. Make sure after you defend your belt for however many times and then you lose, you're not making less money than a kid who had three fights in the UFC. That's a shame. That's laughable. That is a shame.

I feel like I started with wrestling, and a love of pro wrestling, that lead me to MMA and the UFC. And now it's come full circle back to pro wrestling.

I was really disappointed with the lack of respect from the UFC towards Brazilian athletes.

The UFC expects you to perform at your very best. If you're barely training, if you're spending the majority of your time on school, it's impossible to be at your best.

In the first year and a half I was with the UFC I fought seven times, I was 6-1 and I was ranked No. 7. When you go on a tear like that and you stay consistent, eventually the fights that you want just materialize. Because people can't get away from you. You're everywhere.

You can say what you want about the Stephen Thompson fight, but you cannot disregard that me and Stephen went five rounds in a technical fight. Apparently, he's one of the best strikers in the UFC, Stephen Thompson.

I'm honoured and blessed to even be in the UFC, much less be 19 years old in the UFC, knowing I have so much time to learn, so much technique to learn, everything all around to make myself better.

When people first started watching UFC, it seemed like a no-holds barred event... early on it looked like all the fighters were crazy. Actually, there are a lot of techniques, and the reality shows have let people see the fighters behind the scenes.

I will do whatever the UFC tells me to do, but there's not a doubt in my mind that I can be champion.

UFC is not a competitor to the WWE because we are entertainment and UFC is competitive sport. It's very different.

I'm not looking for people to put that vote on me to be prom king of the UFC.

It's no secret that the UFC doesn't promote Brazilians.

UFC has failed to market and promote me appropriately.