Quotes About MMA

Mr. Efrain Escudero is a great fighter and TUF Champ. He has fought in big fights, and has a great record.

I'd probably be, like, a 2-to-1 favorite over Woodley if we fought.

I think I fought my first fight in Zuffa in 2010.

Robert Whittaker is definitely a different fighter from when I fought him last. His takedown defense is ridiculous - ridiculous - and his cardio is out there. Like, the guy does not get tired.

I've fought Jacare twice, it's not a fight people want to see.

The sport has definitely moved beyond that founding idea of MMA, but without a doubt we wouldn't be sitting here right now if the Gracies didn't come here and teach their style and create the UFC.

For me, beating Alistair Overeem means a lot, but the fight I'm looking for is the Francis Ngannou fight.

I've been watching Frank Shamrock fight since the beginning.

Don't get me wrong; I'm not advocating for five-month breaks, like in other sports. That's way too long. All I'm saying is it sure is nice to miss MMA from time to time.

It's MMA, man, the wild, wild west. You can just expect that anything can happen, and that's just where I'm at with things.

I've fought Wilson Reis and Pat Curran two times and Daniel Straus four times. I'm sick and tired of rematches. I'm one of the most exciting fighters in MMA, but fans are tired of me fighting the same people over and over. I just keep knocking them out.

Mixed martial arts has small windows of opportunity and there's always new faces coming through, so it's easy to forget you.

I've done a lot for the sport. Those wins over Fedor, 'Minotauro' and Velasquez will forever be in the history of the sport.

We already have our history with Joanna in Muay Thai and we can start our history in MMA.

Who inside MMA that's a champion goes to fight Muay Thai? Nobody. But I love competing.

I love striking, but MMA and Muay Thai are different.

When Scott Coker first mentioned to me that Ken Shamrock wanted to fight I said, 'Thank you.' I played a little hard to get, but for sure I knew we had to do the third fight with Ken; there was no doubt. He still insisted on fighting me. I guess the guy cannot sleep for 22 years.

I'm very thankful to Bellator.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very thankful for UFC.

I never hated Ronda. She's always talked about me; she did that to promote herself because when she started, nobody knew her, and she talked about me for people to know who she is. And she opened the doors for women's MMA.

The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.

Oh, man - I don't have just one favorite fighter, but I draw from many different aspects of each fighter. But I will say, just going back in the history of the UFC, just kind of trying to learn from each fighter, I've been looking at Brock Lesnar, all the things he did for the UFC back in the day, and his attitude and things like that.

The one thing about working with Scott Coker - I've never heard a bad thing about Scott Coker. And that means a lot, especially in our sport.

M.M.A. is growing, and it's a basic wrestling sport. A lot of fighters are ex-wrestlers. A lot of guys take the easy way out, make quick money.