Quotes About MMA

Regardless if I made it or not, I really wanted women's MMA to be a real thing.

I'm actually really good friends with Gray Maynard.

I think the UFC's done a great job of building the brand, building the UFC, building MMA.

I've had a couple great moments in my career, I beat Cro Cop, I won the Pride belt.

Uriah Hall is just a dynamic striker. He mixes it up well on his feet, that's where I expect him to be good at.

MMA makes you sore and tired every day. I wonder what we're going to be like when we're 50 or 60. I wake up some mornings and just say, 'Oh, God.' And then I go scuba diving.

There are certain things that I always dreamed of, like fighting in the UFC. There's just certain things that I feel like haven't been accomplished there. There's such great women coming up in the sport; seems like a wonderful time to be in women's MMA.

I've never had staph in my life. Knock on wood, I never will.

I want to fight Khabib. I think I'm one of the biggest threats to his title.

The MMA world is a much better place when the Diaz brothers are fighting and thriving, isn't it?

My family actually owns an MMA promotion company, so it's kind of a family deal. It's called Fight Sports Entertainment, and they throw amateur fights in California. Because of that, I've given my mom a lot of the fighters to fight in a show.

I just really like ground and pound. The way I do it, it looks like I'm just throwing bombs, but there's some technique to it too. I make sure I'm controlling the hips, palming his face to the ground, just little things like this that make sure that the ground and pound works and I'm not letting him tie me up to where I can't throw punches.

I feel like I'm one of the best strikers in MMA. I just need the time to prove it. You haven't really seen my full potential yet.

Honestly, I feel like the more entrenched into professional wrestling I got, it became apparent to me that it was really a part and parcel with MMA. There wasn't a whole lot of difference at all. If anything, I refer to it as the other side of the same coin.

MMA has a referee, and you're wearing gloves. I'm in there with another volunteering participant that's out there to win some prize money.

I've always said the thing about MMA that a lot of fighters don't understand is people care more about the story, about why a fight's happening, than the actual fight.

Jorge Masvidal is a star. That wasn't always the case. Hardcore fans always knew how good he was, but it always seemed like he would fall short in the big one.

Cyborg is way heavier, way bigger than me.

I think 205 is the place for me. I walk around at 225, 230 at the most, and that's kind of small for a heavyweight. I think 205 is where I'll be.

If Dana White said he wanted to fight heavyweight, everybody would watch that fight tomorrow just because they want to watch Dana get beat up or win or whatever it is.

I don't think I need to pick a weight class. I feel like I'm that perfect in between. I have the strength, I have the power to fight at heavyweight and I can drop down to 205.

I want to be among the best heavyweights in the UFC.

Henry Cejudo actually saved the flyweights. Like, an entire division. I feel like this should be a bigger deal.

I'm telling you, the lightweight division is so talented, we have so many high level guys out there who are not even in the top-15 who can be champion.