Quotes by Wanderlei Silva - Page 2

In 20 years of career and 50 professional fights, I never refused to test or failed to apply for a license to fight.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
License
Refused
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I live in Las Vegas and I like my money, but I don't gamble, but I said to my wife I want to put a $100,000 on Shogun.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Las Vegas
Vegas
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Almost every single one of my fights was the fight of the night and the public was always interested in watching me compete.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Fights
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Sonnen always appeared as the nice guy, consoling his fighters, while my scenes were all of me with ugly face. It was biased.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Biased
Consoling
Nice Guy
Always Face Me
Appeared
Face Me Always
Fighters
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It's a dangerous sport, you can get really hurt. God helped me, protected me so I wouldn't have any damage, any serious injury.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Damage
Protected
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I talk to my guys and I tell them, 'You have to fight in a way that you don't give the promoter a choice but to bring you back.'
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Promoter
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I just opened a free, public MMA gym in Paraiba, so why can't Curitiba or Sao Paulo have one? No money? Someone needs to do this.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Mma
Opened
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I'll fight in both divisions, 185 and 205. I feel good. That's a choice for the boss, where Dana wants me to fight. It's no problem.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Feel Good
No Problem
Divisions
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I've made it very clear to you all that I will never again fight for this promotion, the U.F. Circus. Fixed fights, and I can prove it!
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Circus
Fixed
Promotion
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My return was interesting because Bellator gave me a stage that was worthy of the return of Wanderlei Silva. I was the main event, sold out.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Worthy
Sold
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The promoter of an event can't take sides. He can't give better conditions to one fighter over the other. Everyone has to be treated with quality.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Conditions
Sides
Promoter
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The athlete needs money to prepare for a fight and to perform well. How are you going to prepare well if you have to have another job to make money?
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Prepare
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A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb in the first-person plural. We.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Sports
Player
Squad
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I am available to work together with the commission to create clear laws that give the athletes the proper respect. The athletes deserve more respect.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Athletes
Work Respect Together
Work Together
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If you go out and make a show and put your heart on the line every time, the people will respond to that and the promoter won't be able to say anything.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Time Heart People
Respond
Promoter
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With the way things are going now in the UFC, you have to be ready to fight anytime they call you. During war times, you have to keep your guns always clean.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Ufc
Anytime
Guns
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It's sad when a MMA fighter talks to an NFL or NBA player about how much money they make. That's embarrassing. You tell them how much you make and they laugh.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Embarrassing
Mma
Nba
Nfl
How Much Money
Talks
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We are not like machines; we can't train as fast after years but I feel really happy and I want to give fans a good fight. When I can't do that anymore, I'll stop.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Machines
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The probability I knock out Chael Sonnen is very big. Man, everybody knows his game. He is never going to take me down and I'm going to break his nose with my knee.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Probability
Man Game Me
Nose
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If it wasn't for us fighters, who have carried the sport on our backs since the very beginning... without fighters there is no fight, there's no event, and no show.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Backs
Carried
Fighters
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Of course we always want to win, and train for it, but I also care about the quality of my performance. I want to provide a great spectacle for those who are at home.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Spectacle
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I want the MMA fighter to make as much money as the NBA and NFL players. We are as professional as they are, we are on the TV too, but we don't get paid like they do.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Mma
Nba
Nfl
As Much Money
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The UFC are promoting a lot of cards and there are a lot of fights that people even don't know that will happen. But Wanderlei Silva vs. Dan Henderson would sell very well.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Cards
Promoting
Ufc
People Will Know
Fights
Dan
Sell
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I'm so glad we have jobs after fighting. A lot of important fighters before would stop fighting and have nothing left. Today, you can fight and make money in a normal life.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Glad
Normal Life
Fighters
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Sometimes, people say, 'You need to fight smart.' After a fight gets started I don't know what happens with me. I feel crazy. A lot of times my coach says, 'Calm down. Calm.'
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Calm
Calm Down
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The active fighters can't speak up or they will be fired. Because this monopoly doesn't allow for a free market. We have to free the fighters so they can fight wherever they want.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Free Market
Monopoly
Fighters
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When I see my opponent, I begin to shake uncontrollably. Once he hits me, I think to myself, you just hit Wanderlei Silva, how dare you hit Wanderlei Silva. Then I try to kill them.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Opponents
Thinking
Trying
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I would like to fight in Brazil, but we can fight in Japan or even in the United States. But if it really is against Dan Henderson, I would like it to be in a soccer stadium in Brazil.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Japan
Soccer
Dan
Stadium
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My second bout with Cro Cop was the hardest. I had a serious injury in my eye during the fight and he knocked me out in the second round. I think it was the closest I've been to death.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Death
Closest
Cop
Eye
Injury
Serious
Fight
Round
Second
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I'm against all types of drugs and steroids, but the athlete has the right to have a private life. He has to be clean on the day of the competition. Out of competition, that's his life.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Private Life
Steroids
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I have some issues that I don't know if they will become issues. I have some things in my head, I forget things. I can't turn my head a lot or my brain crashes. I have back and wrist pain.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Crashes
Wrist
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If you have a young student, don't let him take too many punches to the head. There's the right moment to do a hard training, but it can't be every day. A good coach takes care of your student.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Right Moment
Good Moment Day
Punches
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Who sees Wanderlei Silva today, with all the marketing, with a good gym and getting paid well to fight, they don't know the difficulties I went through. I went through a lot of hardships in my life.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Marketing
Life Good Today
Difficulties
Hardships
Sees
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For many athletes, an injury can mean the end of a relationship with a sponsor. XYIENCE stood behind me in my time of victory and they continued to do so when I became injured. This means a great deal to me.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Injured
My Time
Time Relationship Great
Athletes
Great Deal
Sponsor
Stood
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I apologize to all my fans. I ask for your prayers for a successful surgery and healthy body. I will be back in shape to fight again and to give you more excitement. A big hug for all of you and be with God.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Fighting
Prayer
Successful
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My next step is give opportunities so that guys can train. I watch here in Brazil and we've lost a lot of talent just because guys don't have a membership to the gym. I want to make free gyms in the community.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Brazil
Membership
Talent
Guys
Next Step
Opportunities
Step
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The promotions put fighters against each other, and they don't want to pay anything to them. If you refuse to fight, the promoter shows up - and sometimes he wants to show off more than the fighters. This is a shame.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Fighters
Promoter
Show Off
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I was in a lecture about concussions and of the 10 symptoms the guy mentioned, I had eight. The symptoms would be, for example, mood swings, getting angry very fast, forgetting some things, having difficulty sleeping.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Difficulty
Mood
Swings
Forgetting
Lecture
Mood Swings
Sleeping
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My great fight was against Liddell. I lost via decision but it was one of the fights that I most enjoyed to be part of. He was tough, had heavy hands, I was able to handle him and knock him down in the second round, we gave an amazing show.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Round
Via
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But what astonished me is that this Croatian, this Mirko Cro Cop guy, called me the best in the world, a legend in front of me, but behind the computer he's talking a bunch of crap. What kind of man are you to say this crap online and not to my face?
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Cop
Crap
Best Man World
Astonished
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Shogun vs. Lyoto is a fight that no one can miss. It's hard for me to say anything because I'm great friends with Shogun. I'm cheering for Shogun. I'm friends with Lyoto as well. I like him and I respect him and admire him as a fighter, and outside the ring, he is a great example to all of us.
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Cheering
Great Example
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I challenged Coleman and he accepted, he said he'd fight me. I pointed at Baroni and challenged him too, he looked at me with a bewildered look on his face and asked: "Me?", I said "Thats right, You!!" I also challenged Quinton Jackson and he looked at me and said "Me too?", and I responded. If you want some, there is some for you too!
Wanderlei Silva / Mixed Martial Artist
Faces
Fighting
Looks
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